林, a compound ideograph of the forest, serves as phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the sematic component 林 have to do with the tree.
Characters formed by the phonetic component 林
琳淋霖啉冧崊 the same pronunciation lín
晽菻 the same pronunciation níng
Characters formed by the semantic component 林
梵梦焚楚麻 fàn mèng fén chǔ má