Lin

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Lin (plural Lins)

1. A male or female given name
2. A surname

From Chinese: compare Mandarin 林 (lín), Gan 林 (lin⁴), Wu 林, Xiang 林 (lin²). 林 itself is composed of a reduplication of 木 (“wood, tree”). Literally, “forest”

• Lim, Lam, Lem, Ling, Lang, Leng, Lan, Len, Nin (Sinitic)
• Rim, Im, Lim, Rin, Hayashi, Lam (Sino-Xenic)

Lin (plural Lins)

1. A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
   1. A surname from Mandarin
   2. A surname from Gan
   3. A surname from Wu
   4. A surname from Xiang

From Mandarin 臨／临 (Lín).

Lin

1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
   • 2002 April 19, Xiao Rong, “'Grandpa Mao' Trains Peasants”, in Beijing Today‎, number 49, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 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.

   • 2010 September 20, “Miners trapped”, in Global Times‎, archived from the original on October 1, 2019:

     Seven miners were initially believed to be trapped underground a bauxite mine in Shanxi Province Sunday, local authorities said.
     The accident occurred at the Duoshi Mining Company in Lin county of Lüliang, the Lin county information office said in a press release.

   • 2012, Tim Wright, The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal‎, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 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).

   • 2018 May 11, Joseph Campbell, Elias Glenn, “Better off in a cave: Chinese count costs of apartments in anti-poverty campaign”, in Darren Schuettler, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 24 November 2018, 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lin.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lin Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1741, column 2

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