Japanese pear; Asian pear; nashi
Refers specifically to the crisp, round, apple-like pear native to East Asia (Pyrus pyrifolia), not the European soft pear.
秋になると、梨がたくさん出回る。
In autumn, a lot of nashi pears come onto the market.
この梨はみずみずしくて甘い。
This nashi pear is juicy and sweet.
Pears ripen when autumn comes.
梨 is the common cultivated Japanese pear, while 山梨 refers specifically to the wild, smaller and harder variety.
梨 refers to the crisp, round, apple-like Japanese pear, while 洋梨 is the softer, bell-shaped Western pear.
梨 (the pear fruit) is a homophone of 無し ('without') but has no meaning connection at all.
In everyday contexts, 梨 (pears) as fruit are naturally counted with 個.
Chinese quince
European pear; common pear
Japanese pear; nashi pear
Epigaea asiatica
pear cider; pear liquor
hardy kiwi; kiwi berry; tara vine; bower vine
callery pear; bradford pear
snow pear; Pyrus nivalis
Harbin pear; Ussurian pear; Chinese pear
Standard kanji spelling for the fruit; widely used in news and everyday writing.
Rarely used kanji form; learners are unlikely to encounter it.
Kana spelling is very common in practice.
The word なし is native Japanese. The kanji 梨 is a Chinese character adopted for its meaning. The origin of the word itself is uncertain.
avocado; alligator pear
Chinese white pear; ya pear
alder-leafed whitebeam; Korean whitebeam