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Kanji Detail for 梨 - "pear"

梨

  • Meaning

    梨 means "pear."

    1. Pear - A deciduous tree of the rose family that bears sweet fruit.

  • Tattoo check: 梨

    • Verified meaning: pear
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read しな, なし, なしさき, り)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 梨

    Given names 梨(しな)Listen 梨(なし)Listen 梨(りか)Listen 梨(りん)Listen

    Surnames 梨(なしさき)Listen 梨(り)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    pear tree

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    pear; opera; cut, slash

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    pear; CL:個|个[ge4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    pear; opera

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A fruit name. Oval pointed leaves. Round fruit. The best come from Hejian in Hebei and Laiyang in Shandong. | Emperor Xuanzong of Tang knew music theory. He selected three hundred children from the Seated Section musicians and taught them in the Pear Garden, calling them the Emperor's Pear Garden Disciples. From "Book of Tang." Hence later, theaters were called 梨園, based on this.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ri(リ) リ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    nashi(なし) なし

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    pear fruit tree orchard blossom harvest juicy sweet autumn seed deciduous

Sentences including 梨

  • There are some pears in the box.

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