Submitted NameRevisions Save Type Surname Usage Japanese (Rare) Scripts 林林(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. Reen-ba-yah-shee [key] Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 10/13/2017 by ShioTanbo1 Edited 12/13/2017 by ShioTanbo1 Meaning & History It's written like this: 林林,literally "Hayashi Hayashi", Hayashi means "Forest". This is because "Hayashi" is "Rin" in the Chinese reading called onyomi,and Hayashi is the Japanese,or kunyomi reading for "Forest".