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

  • 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
trad. 森
simp. # 森

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).

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.

Note:

  • siam1 - Shantou, Chaozhou;
  • sim1 - Jieyang;
  • siang1 - Chenghai.
  • Dialectal data
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/

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”).

森

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

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

Compounds

Kanji in this term
森
もり
Grade: 1
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
杜

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]

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

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)
  1. ^ , text here
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

森 (eumhun 숲 삼 (sup sam))

  1. forest

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

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