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Lin
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Appendix:Variations of "lin"
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈlɪn/ US
lĭncf. Linhsien 1059 2
en ɪn 1
Etymology 1
Proper noun
s
en male,female.
en
See also
en Lyn Lyne Lynne Lynn Linn Linne
Etymology 2
From en zh -: compare en cmn 林, en gan 林, en wuu 林, en hsn 林. 林 - itself is composed of a reduplication of zh 木 - wood, tree. forest.
Alternative forms
en Lim Lam Lem Ling Lang Leng Lan Len Nin Sinitic
en Rim Im Lim Rin Hayashi Lam Sino-Xenic
Proper noun
s
en Chinese Forest,Woods,Grove
en Mandarin
en Gan
en Wu
en Xiang
Derived terms
en Linsanity
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Lin is the 402nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 79,508 individuals. Lin is most common among Asian/Pacific (95.8%) individuals.
Etymology 3
Lin County
From en cmn - 臨 Lín.
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Lüliang province/Shanxi c/China.
en 6 October 1970 5 October 1970 Shansi Special District Holds Activists Congress Daily Report: Communist China I 194 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049262291&seq=195 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service cmn 31371214 Communist China: North Region F 1 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049262291&seq=241 Inspired by the communique of the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth CCP Central Committee and in order to greet the convening of the first provincial congress of activists in the creative study and application of Mao Tsetung Thought, the Chinchung Special District Revolutionary Committee recently held a discussion meeting on the study of Mao Tsetung Thought for leading cadres at and above standing committee level of the revolutionary committees of the special district and of the counties and all big factories and mines in the special district.Study courses in the Thought of Mao Tsetung have been conducted by many leading cadres in the special district, including (Liu Kuo-yao), chairman of the Fenyang County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative; (Chao Hsiao-yuan), chairman of the Lin County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative; and (Kuo Li-chen), chairman of the Pingting County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative.
en April 19, 2002 Xiao Rong 'Grandpa Mao' Trains Peasants w:Beijing Today https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20020419/ 49 2095-9591 958634538 1 https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20020419/ 1 Together with his friend Tang Min, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, Mao established a micro-credit scheme in Lin County of north China’s Shanxi province eight years ago.
en 2012 Tim Wright The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal https://books.google.com/books?id=KBWpAgAAQBAJ w:Routledge 978-0-415-49328-4 2011013795 1229267566 24842371M 107 As mines increasingly became privatized, the profits no longer necessarily came to the villages and a major dispute was triggered in Lin County (Shanxi) in 2008 partly because the population felt they had received no benefits from the local mines (Nanfang dushi bao 22 October 2009).
en MAY 11, 2018 Joseph Campbell; Elias Glenn Better off in a cave: Chinese count costs of apartments in anti-poverty campaign Darren Schuettler; Clarence Fernandez https://web.archive.org/web/20181124120024/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-poverty-idUSKBN1IC0S8 24 November 2018 w:Reuters World News Li Caidong, 68, who has lived in a cave his entire life in Lin county, stands outside his cave, at sunset in Lin county, Shanxi province, China March 14, 2018.The relocations are voluntary, say residents of Lin county, but Guo sees no reason to abandon her cave house.“Our work has been proceeding smoothly,” Liu Yongfu, an official handling poverty alleviation and development efforts, told a news conference in Beijing in March. “The common folk are very supportive.” But authorities in Lin county declined to comment on their relocation plans when contacted by Reuters.
en
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 臨 Lín
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Lin Xian Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1741 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1741/ 2
Anagrams
en iln nil -nil- NIL NLI nil-
en unisex given names
Asturian
Alternative forms
ast Llin
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
ast male es:Lino
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Noun
+
tl Linggo: Sun