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孔融让梨

Kǒng Róng ràng lí

4-character word Traditional 孔融讓梨

What 孔融让梨 means

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

The characters in 孔融让梨

• 孔kǒnghole; classifier for cave dwellings
• 融róngto melt; to thaw; to blend
• 让ràngto yield; to permit; to let sb do sth
• 梨lípear