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. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent

2 nothing to choose between them

1 lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (idiom)

2 fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it

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