文林

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	woods; forest
simp. and trad. (文林)		文	林

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wénlín

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ lam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wénlín
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúnlín
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-lin²
    • Yale: wén-lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenlin
    • Palladius: вэньлинь (vɛnʹlinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁴ lam⁴
    • Yale: màhn làhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ lam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ lem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ lɐm²¹/

Noun

文林

1. (literary) place where scholars get together
2. (literary) scholarly world
3. (literary) writer's resort