1 surname Lin

2 Japanese surname Hayashi

1 forest

2 classifier: 片 piàn

1 martial arts (social) circles

1 old variant of 肯[kěn]

1 to be certain

2 to be positive

3 assuredly

4 definitely

5 to give recognition

6 to affirm

7 affirmative (answer)

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 forest of wolfberry and catalpa (Lycium chinense and Catalpa ovata, idiom); fig. great quantity of talent

1 it takes all sorts (to make a world) (idiom)

1 a lone tree does not make a forest (idiom)

2 one cannot accomplish much on one's own