Characters · 8 strokes
林
lín woods
Where the shape comes from
Two trees make a wood. Put a third on top and you have 森, sēn, a forest.
木tree
木tree
Write it
Watch the order first, then trace it with the guide, then write it from memory. The model comes back over your strokes so you can see where the shape drifted.
Press Watch to see the stroke order.
Stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi via Hanzi Writer, Arphic Public License.
Three words that use it
森林
sēnlín
forest
树林
shùlín
woods
林先生
Lín xiānsheng
Mr Lin
Watch out: the mistake people make
Writing the left tree at full size. Its last stroke shrinks to a dot so the second tree has room.