Illustration: Beside cultivated fields on the edge of a Japanese town, a small stand of deciduous trees surrounds a leaf-covered footpath. Many separate trunks rise together, but daylight and the fields beyond remain visible between them.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

林はやし

hayashi

woods, grove

Example sentences

  1. 林はやしに竹たけが目立めだつ。

    Bamboo stands out in the woods.

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  2. 林はやしの中なかでいっぱい虫むしにさされた。

    I got a lot of insect bites in the woods.

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  3. ランタンが林はやしを照てらした。

    The forest was illuminate​d by a lantern.

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Kanji in 林

  • 林grove; forestOnリンKunはやし

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