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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lí | li2
English translation
pear
CL:
>[gè]
pear; opera

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

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tree

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

利木

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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hǎo tián zhǐ , 滋润 zīrùn le 许多 xǔduō 农民 nóngmín 贫困户.

Very sweet a pear, moist a lot of farmers and poverty door.

làn de 地方 dìfāng wān diào .

Scoop out the rotten part of the pear.

利厄斯朝士兵 shìbīng 点头 diǎn tóu 示意 shìyì , 他们 tā men 随即 suíjí 押运 yā yùn rén 领到 lǐng dào zhū è 梨树 Lí shù 后面 hòumian .

Cornelius nodded to several of the soldiers, who led the supercargo away behind an avocado tree.

于是 yúshì 转弯 zhuǎn wān Xiàng běi bēn xiāng yuàn lái .

He then turned north and hurried towards Pear Fragrance Court.

Cóng Hòu xuē jiā 母子 mǔ zǐ jiù zài 香院 zhù le .

So Aunt Xue and her children moved into Pear Fragrance Court.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
pear
鸭梨 yā lí Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri)鴨梨
雪梨 Xuě lí Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia (Tw)雪梨 Xuě lí
梨子 lí zi pear梨子 lí zi
凤梨 fèng lí pineapple鳳梨
梨树 Lí shù Lishu county in Siping 四平 Sì píng , Jilin梨樹
梨花带雨 lí huā dài yǔ fig. tear-stained face of a beauty梨花帶雨
鳄梨 è lí avocado (Persea americana)鱷梨
梨树县 Lí shù xiàn Lishu county in Siping 四平 Sì píng , Jilin梨樹縣
杜梨 dù lí birchleaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia)杜梨 dù lí
棠梨 táng lí birch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia)棠梨 táng lí
梨园子弟 lí yuán zǐ dì Chinese opera performers梨園子弟
梨树区 Lí shù qū Lishu district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西 Jī xī [Jī​xī], Heilongjiang梨樹區

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