孔融讓梨

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

surname Kong

hole / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier for cave dwellings

Kong Rong (153-208), poet of the Three Kingdoms period

to melt / to thaw / to blend / to merge / to be in harmony

old variant of 融[rong2]

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])

pear / CL:個|个[ge4]