# Lin
## English
### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈlɪn/
* Rhymes: -ɪn

### Etymology 1
#### Proper noun

Lin (plural Lins)
* A male or female given name.
* A surname

#### See also

* Linn
* Linne
* Lyn
* Lyne
* Lynn
* Lynne

### Etymology 2

From Chinese: compare Mandarin 林 (lín), Gan 林 (lin$^4$), Wu 林, Xiang 林 (lin$^2$). 林 itself is composed of a reduplication of 木 (“wood, tree”). Literally, “forest”.

#### Alternative forms

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

#### Proper noun

Lin (plural Lins)
* A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
** A surname from Mandarin
** A surname from Gan
** A surname from Wu
** A surname from Xiang

### Etymology 3

From Mandarin 臨／临 (Lín).

#### Proper noun

Lin
* A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
** 1970 October 6 [1970 October 5], “Shansi Special District Holds Activists Congress”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 194, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 1: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.
** 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.
** 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.

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* 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

### Anagrams

* nil, -nil-, NIL, NLI, nil-