森林

しんりん · shinrin · JLPT N2 · noun

forest

🌲🌳 森 = three trees; 林 = two trees: a forest is a crowd of trees (shin + rin)

森 has three 木 (trees) and 林 has two, so the bigger cluster 森 means forest and 林 means woods or grove. Both are read here as one word: しんりん.

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