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梨 means 'Japanese pear tree'
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The Japanese pear is tough and spotted, inspiring fun terms that implicitly compare rough-hewn or polka-dotted entities to this fruit. (For example, a word for "avocado" breaks down as "alligator + pear"!) Moreover, 梨 pops up in words for pear-shaped things. See why this occurs even though a Japanese pear is round. Also find out why means something extremely different from "pear garden."
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 梨 is used 1 time, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 梨 is used 24 times, read 2 ways.
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noun
wild nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia var. pyrifolia); wild Japanese pear(click the word for examples and links)
An additional 6 less common words include 梨 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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