孔融让梨

Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty

Characters and words in 孔融让梨

kǒng = ku + (e)ng3
kǒng = ku + (e)ng3
hole / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier for cave dwellings
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Kong Rong (153-208), poet of the Three Kingdoms period
róng = ru + (e)ng2
to melt / to thaw / to blend / to merge / to be in harmony
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róng = ru + (e)ng2
ràng = r + ang4
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[bei4])
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= li + Ø2
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