梨

梨 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓木 (HND) or 難竹弓木 (XHND), four-corner 2290₄, composition ⿱利木)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 530, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14873
• Dae Jaweon: page 918, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1215, character 10
• Unihan data for U+68A8

• Unihan data for U+F9E2

Historical forms of the character 梨
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ril) : phonetic 利 (OC *rids) + semantic 木.

Unknown. Also found in Proto-Hmong-Mien *rəj; folk etymology derives this from 利 (OC *rids, “sharp”) (Schuessler, 2007).

梨

1. pear (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 c)
2. ^† Alternative form of 剺 (lí, “to cut”)

• → Malay: lai (“pear”)
• → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *rəj (“pear”)

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. pear

• Go-on: り (ri)
• Kan-on: り (ri)
• Kun: なし (nashi, 梨, Jōyō)
• Nanori: か (ka)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

ナシ

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Pyrus pyrifolia

Wikipedia

From Old Japanese, attested already in the Man'yōshū.^[1] Further derivation unclear.

• (Tokyo) なし (Odaka – )^[2]
• (Tokyo) なし (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

梨(なし) or 梨(ナシ) • (nashi) 

1. a pear tree
2. a pear (the fruit)
3. more specifically, a Japanese pear or Asian pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ナシ.

From Middle Chinese 梨 (MC lij). Compare modern Mandarin 梨 (lí).

• IPA^(key):

梨(り) • (ri) 

1. a pear tree
2. a pear (the fruit)
3. more specifically, a Japanese pear or Asian pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)

梨 (eumhun 배나무 리 (baenamu ri), word-initial (South Korea) 배나무 이 (baenamu i))

1. hanja form^? of ] (“pear tree”)

梨: Hán Nôm readings: lê, lệ

1. chữ Hán form of lê (“pear”).
2. chữ Hán form of lệ (“pear”).