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 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)

1 lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom)

2 fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities

1 lit. honeyed words, a sword in the belly (idiom); fig. hypocritical and murderous

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

1 big-bellied (idiom)

2 paunchy