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梨

lí

HSK 5 Character Measure word 个

What 梨 means

1. pear

Example sentences

• 雪梨离这里很远。
  Xuělí lí zhèlǐ hěn yuǎn.
  Sydney is far from here.
• 他今天从雪梨回来。
  Tā jīntiān cóng xuělí huílai.
  He comes back from Sydney today.
• 这只梨闻上去很香。
  Zhè zhī lí wénshàngqù hěn xiāng.
  This pear smells nice.
• 这是只梨，不是苹果。
  This is a pear, not an apple.
• 雪梨是澳洲最大的城市。
  Xuělí shì àozhōu zuì dà de chéngshì.
  Sydney is the largest city in Australia.
• 水梨在这家工厂进行装罐。
  Nashi are tinned in this factory.

Words starting with 梨

• 梨园lí yuánthe world of Chinese opera
• 梨子lí zipear
• 梨树lí shùpear tree
• 梨属lí shǔPyrus, tree genus containing pears
• 梨果lí guǒpome
• 梨涡lí wōdimples (of a woman)
• 梨树区Lí shù QūLishu, a district of Jixi City 鸡西市
• 梨树县Lí shù XiànLishu, a county in Siping City 四平市
• 梨园子弟lí yuán zǐ dìChinese opera performers
• 梨花带雨lí huā dài yǔlit. like raindrops on a pear blossom (idiom); fig. tear-stained face of a beauty
• 梨俱吠陀Lí jù fèi tuóRigveda, Indian religious poem

Words containing 梨

• 刺梨cì líchestnut rose fruit (hip of Rosa roxburghii), used in TCM
• 山梨shān lírowan or mountain-ash (genus Sorbus)
• 杜梨dù líbirchleaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia)
• 水梨shuǐ líAsian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
• 沙梨shā líAsian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
• 砂梨shā líAsian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
• 酪梨lào lí(Taiwan) avocado (Persea americana); Taiwan pr. luò lí
• 雪梨xuě lísnow pear (pyrus nivalis)
• 凤梨fèng lípineapple
• 黄梨huáng lípineapple; pear
• 亚洲梨Yà zhōu líAsian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
• 南美梨nán měi líavocado (Persea americana)
• 山梨醇shān lí chúnsorbitol C6H14O6 (sugar substitute and mild laxative)
• 苹果梨píng guǒ líAsian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
• 酪梨酱lào lí jiàng(Taiwan) guacamole; Taiwan pr. luò lí jiàng
• 高接梨gāo jiē lí(Taiwan) high-grafted pear…
• 凤梨园fèng lí yuánpineapple plantation; piña colada
• 鸭梨yā líChinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri)
• 士多啤梨shì duō pí lí(Hong Kong; loanword) strawberry
• 孔融让梨Kǒng Róng ràng líKong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融
• 空气凤梨kōng qì fèng líair plant (genus Tillandsia 铁兰属
• 凤梨释迦fèng lí shì jiāatemoya, hybrid of the cherimoya (Annona cherimola) and the sugar apple…
• 黄花梨木huáng huā lí mùyellow rosewood
• 酪梨莎莎酱lào lí shā shā jiàngguacamole

Characters built on 利

These share the phonetic component 利 (lì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 莉lìused in 茉莉; used in the transliteration of female names
• 犁líplow
• 俐lìused in 伶俐
• 猁lìused in 猞猁
• 痢lìdysentery
• 蜊líclam
• 唎lì(final particle); sound; noise
• 悧lìused in 怜悧

Characters that look like 梨

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 案àn(legal) case; incident; record
• 裂lièto split; to crack; to break open
• 梁liángroof beam; beam (structure); bridge
• 犁líplow
• 桨jiǎngoar; paddle
• 奘zàng(literary) strong; robust (used in personal names); (colloquial) coarse; boorish

Sounds the same

Read lí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 离to leave; to part from; to be away from
• 璃(phonetic character used in transliteration of foreign names); Taiwan pr. lì; variant of 璃
• 厘one hundredth; centi-
• 黎(literary) black; dark; many
• 犁plow
• 篱a fence
• 狸(bound form) used in the names of small mammals
• 骊black horse; jet steed; good horse
• 罹happen to; sorrow; suffer from
• 喱grain (unit of weight, approx. 0.065 grams); Taiwan pr. lǐ
• 漓pattering (of rain); seep through
• 藜name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album