LIN-2

('lin' in the second tone)

There are 31 standard Chinese characters that are spoken 'lin'. For 8 of them, 林 is the sound-determining element. Another sound-determining elements is 磷 minus the 石 on the left (sorry, for a non-existing character, there is no unicode, thus it can not be displayed); this element occurs in roughly one third of the characters spoken as 'lin'.

林 = forest

玉林 = yu(4)lin(2) = jade forest, Yulin (city in Guangxi province)