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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- 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
Character Decomposition
Idioms (5)
一鼻孔出气
- 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
- 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet
孔武有力
- 1 courageous and strong (idiom)
- 2 Herculean (physique etc)
梨花带雨
- 1 lit. like raindrops on a pear blossom (idiom)
- 2 fig. tear-stained face of a beauty
无孔不钻
- 1 lit. leave no hole undrilled (idiom); to latch on to every opportunity
融为一体
- 1 to fuse together (idiom)
- 2 hypostatic union (religion)