Lin

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Lin (plural Lins)

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

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Etymology 2

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

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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

Etymology 3

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From Mandarin (Lín).

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Lin

  1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
    • 2002 April 19, Xiao Rong, “'Grandpa Mao' Trains Peasants”, in Beijing Today[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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[4], 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.
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