1 Jilin province (Kirin) in northeast China, abbr. 吉, capital 長春|长春

2 also Jilin prefecture-level city, Jilin province

1 Shaolin Temple, Buddhist monastery famous for its kung fu monks

1 surname Lin

2 Japanese surname Hayashi

1 Lin Daiyu, female character in The Dream of Red Mansions, cousin and thwarted lover of Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉

1 Guilin prefecture-level city in Guangxi

1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand

2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)

1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)

2 to make oblique charges

3 to make insinuations

4 to insinuate

1 one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest (idiom)

1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)

1 countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)