Chinese symbol for “jungle”
丛林
cóng lín
Traditional: 叢林
jungle; thicket; forest; Buddhist monastery
The closest CC-CEDICT match for jungle is 丛林 (cóng lín), defined as: jungle; thicket; forest; Buddhist monastery.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “jungle”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 丛林.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丛书 (叢書) | cóng shū | a series of books; a collection of books |
| 灌木丛 (灌木叢) | guàn mù cóng | shrub; shrubbery |
| 草丛 (草叢) | cǎo cóng | underbrush |
| 树丛 (樹叢) | shù cóng | thicket; undergrowth |
| 丛生 (叢生) | cóng shēng | growing as a thicket; overgrown |
| 森林 | sēn lín | forest; measure word: 片 (piàn) |
| 林业 (林業) | lín yè | forest industry; forestry |
| 树林 (樹林) | shù lín | woods; grove |
See also: Japanese symbol for “jungle”.
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.