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孔融讓梨 (hung2 jung4 joeng6 lei4) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

孔融讓梨 (hung2 jung4 joeng6 lei4, Kǒng Róng ràng lí) — 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

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 孔 (hung2) — confucius; confucism; hole M: 个gè [个]; classifier for cave dwellings; opening; …
• 孔明燈 (hung2 ming4 dang1) — noun; Kong Ming lantern or sky lantern
• 孔雀石 (hung2 zoek3 sek6) — Malachite
• 孔雀石綠 (hung2 zoek3 sek6 luk6) — Malachite Green
• 孔雀開屏 (hung2 zoek3 hoi1 ping4) — peacocks fanning their feathers; peacock flaunting its tail
• 孔丘 (hung2 jau1) — Confucius

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