森

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森 U+68EE, 森
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68EE
← 棭
[U+68ED] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 棯 →
[U+68EF]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
12 strokes

Han character[edit]

森 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木木 (DDD), four-corner 40994, composition ⿱木林)

Derived characters[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 534, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14974
  • Dae Jaweon: page 922, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1226, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+68EE

Chinese[edit]

trad. 森
simp. # 森

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 森
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : Triplication of 木 (“tree”), to suggest a large number (compare 三) of trees such as one would find in a forest. Compare 林 (*ɡ·rɯm).

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ram (“jungle; forest; country; field”) (STEDT). Schuessler (2007) suggests that it may be an intensive derivation of 林 (*ɡ·rɯm, “forest”), perhaps influenced by parallels in Austroasiatic, such as Old Khmer sarāma, sarāṃ (“a tract of stunted vegetation”), derived from rām (“inundated forest along a watercourse”). Alternatively, Mei (2012) suggests that the prefix *s- has a denominative function.

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • siam1 - Shantou, Chaozhou;
  • sim1 - Jieyang;
  • siang1 - Chenghai.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 森
Mandarin Beijing /sən⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂən⁴⁴/
/sən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /sən²¹/
Jinan /ʂẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʂə̃²¹²³/
Zhengzhou /ʂən²⁴/
Xi'an /sẽ²¹/
Xining /sə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /səŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʂə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /sɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /sən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /sen⁵⁵/
Kunming /sə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /sən³¹/
Hefei /sən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /səŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /səŋ¹³/
Hohhot /sə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /sən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sen³³/
Wenzhou /saŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /sʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /san¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /sən³³/
Xiangtan /sən³³/
Gan Nanchang /sɛn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sem⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /sem²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐm⁵³/
Nanning /sɐm⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /sɐm⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sim⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /sɛiŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /saiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /siam³³/
/sim³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sim²³/
Rime
Character 森
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 所今切
Baxter srim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʃˠiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʃᵚim/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʃiem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʂjim/
Li
Rong 		/ʃjəm/
Wang
Li 		/ʃĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʂi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shēn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sam1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 森
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		sēn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ srim ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.rəm/
English dense trees

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 森
Reading # 1/1
No. 11003
Phonetic
component 		森
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		森
Old
Chinese 		/*srɯm/

Definitions[edit]

森

  1. full of trees; densely forested
  2. in profusion; multitudinous; dense
  3. dark; gloomy; cold
    陰森／阴森  ―  yīnsēn  ―  gloomy
  4. orderly
  5. strict; rigid; rigorous
    森嚴／森严  ―  sēnyán  ―  strict; tight
  6. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 森, Mori
  7. (～町):
    1. Mori (a town in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
    2. Mori (a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)
  8. (Malaysia, Singapore) Short for 森美蘭／森美兰 (Sēnměilán, “Negeri Sembilan”).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Kanji[edit]

森

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. forest, woods
  2. objects lined up
  3. silent

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term
森
もり
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).[1]

Probably cognate with 盛り (mori, “heap, pile”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 盛る (moru, “to heap up, to build up into a significant amount”), from the way a forest can look like a heap or mound from a distance.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

森(もり) • (mori) 

  1. a forest (dense collection of trees)
    Synonym: 森林 (shinrin)
    • 1999 July 22, “トレント [Trent]”, in Vol.4, Konami:
      まだまだ成(せい)長(ちょう)し続(つづ)けている森(もり)の大(たい)木(ぼく)。森(もり)の守(まも)り神(かみ)。
      Madamada seichōshitsuzuketeiru mori no taiboku. Mori no mamori kami.
      A growing forest tree. He is the guardian god of the woods.
  2. a shrine grove

Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms

Proverbs[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

森(もり) • (Mori) 

  1. a surname
  2. 森町:
    1. Mori (a town in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
    2. Mori (a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)

References[edit]

  1. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 10, poem 1850:
    , text here
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

森 (eumhun 숲 삼 (sup sam))

  1. forest

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

森: Hán Việt readings: sâm, sum
森: Nôm readings: chùm, dâm, dúm, râm, sâm, sum, xum

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