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

1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)

2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss

3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

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)