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Mandarin · pinyin sēn#

(bound form) densely wooded
(fig.) (bound form) multitudinous; gloomy; forbidding

Mandarin · pinyin Sēn#

Mori (Japanese surname)

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森: sēn · forest; luxuriant vegetation

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full of trees; densely forested
in profusion; multitudinous; dense
dark; gloomy; cold
orderly
strict; rigid; rigorous
an orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 森, Mori
(～町): — Mori (a town in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan)
(～町): — Mori (a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)
(Malaysia, Singapore) short for 森美蘭／森美兰 (Sēnměilán, “Negeri Sembilan”)

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