孔融让梨 (孔融讓梨)
Kǒng Róng ràng lí
Pinyin

Definition

孔融让梨 (孔融讓梨)
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Kǒng Róng ràng lí
  1. Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kǒng Róng] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty

Related Words (20)

Kǒng
  1. 1 surname Kong
Kǒng zǐ
  1. 1 Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kǒng fū zǐ]
máo kǒng
  1. 1 pore
róng rù
  1. 1 to blend into
  2. 2 to integrate
  3. 3 to assimilate
  4. 4 to merge
róng huà
  1. 1 to melt
  2. 2 to thaw
  3. 3 to dissolve
  4. 4 to blend into
  5. 5 to combine
  6. 6 to fuse

Idioms (5)

一鼻孔出气
yī bí kǒng chū qì
  1. 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
  2. 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet
孔武有力
kǒng wǔ yǒu lì
  1. 1 courageous and strong (idiom)
  2. 2 Herculean (physique etc)
梨花带雨
lí huā dài yǔ
  1. 1 lit. like raindrops on a pear blossom (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. tear-stained face of a beauty
无孔不钻
wú kǒng bù zuān
  1. 1 lit. leave no hole undrilled (idiom); to latch on to every opportunity
融为一体
róng wéi yī tǐ
  1. 1 to fuse together (idiom)
  2. 2 hypostatic union (religion)