Chinese symbol for “backwoods”
深山老林
shēn shān lǎo lín
(idiom) backwoods; wilderness
The closest CC-CEDICT match for backwoods is 深山老林 (shēn shān lǎo lín), defined as: (idiom) backwoods; wilderness.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “backwoods”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 深山老林.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 深入 | shēn rù | to penetrate deeply; thorough |
| 深刻 | shēn kè | profound; deep |
| 深度 | shēn dù | depth; (of a speech etc) profundity |
| 深化 | shēn huà | to deepen; to intensify |
| 深夜 | shēn yè | very late at night |
| 深深 | shēn shēn | deep; profound |
| 山区 (山區) | shān qū | mountain area; 个 (gè) |
| 火山 | huǒ shān | volcano |
| 老师 (老師) | lǎo shī | teacher |
| 森林 | sēn lín | forest; measure word: 片 (piàn) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “backwoods”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.