Chinese symbol for “shrubbery”
灌木林
guàn mù lín
shrubbery; low wood
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shrubbery is 灌木林 (guàn mù lín), defined as: shrubbery; low wood.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “shrubbery”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 灌木林.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灌溉 | guàn gài | to irrigate |
| 灌输 (灌輸) | guàn shū | to imbue with; to inculcate |
| 灌木 | guàn mù | bush; shrub |
| 灌木丛 (灌木叢) | guàn mù cóng | shrub; shrubbery |
| 灌丛 (灌叢) | guàn cóng | scrub; shrubland |
| 灌醉 | guàn zuì | to fuddle; to befuddle |
| 木材 | mù cái | wood |
| 树木 (樹木) | shù mù | tree |
| 森林 | sēn lín | forest; measure word: 片 (piàn) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shrubbery”.
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.