士林

Chinese

		scholar; warrior; knight	woods; forest
simp. and trad. (士林)		士	林

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìlín

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁶ lam⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ-lìm
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sū-lîm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shìlín
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìhlín
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴-lin²
    • Yale: shr̀-lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhlin
    • Palladius: шилинь (šilinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹ lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si⁶ lam⁴
    • Yale: sih làhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si⁶ lam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi⁶ lem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː²² lɐm²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ-lìm
    • Hakka Romanization System: sii lim^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: si⁴ lim²
    • Sinological IPA: /sɨ⁵⁵ lim¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū-lîm
    • Tâi-lô: sū-lîm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suxliim
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²²⁻²¹ lim²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁴¹⁻²² lim²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²²⁻²¹ lim¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su³³⁻¹¹ lim²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su³³⁻²¹ lim²³/

Noun

士林

1. (literary) academic circles

   • 設重雲之講，開士林之學。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     设重云之讲，开士林之学。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 578, Yu Xin, The Lament for the South (《哀江南賦》)

     Shè Chóngyún zhī jiǎng, kāi shìlín zhī xué. [Pinyin]

     (The Emperor Wu) started his personal sermons at the Chongyun Temple, and he encouraged the renewal of scholarly activities among the educated.

Proper noun

士林

1. (～區) Shilin District (a district of Taipei, Taiwan)

References

• “Entry #36024”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.