| 孔融让梨 |
Kǒng Róng ràng lí |
Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融 picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty |
| 孔 |
Kǒng |
surname Kong |
| 孔 |
kǒng |
hole / CL:个 / classifier for cave dwellings |
| 孔融 |
Kǒng Róng |
Kong Rong (153-208), poet of the Three Kingdoms period |
| 融 |
róng |
to melt / to thaw / to blend / to merge / to be in harmony |
| 融 |
róng |
old variant of 融 |
| 让 |
ràng |
to yield / to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) / by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) |
| 梨 |
lí |
pear / CL:个 |