Moto 孝: Filial Piety; Child's RespectKanji meaning, readings, and the words that use it
- On'yomi
- コウ、キョウ
- Level
- Jōyō, grade 6
- Words
- 27 in the dictionary
Words that use the on'yomi (コウ・キョウ)
- 孝行こうこうfilial piety
- 不孝ふこうundutifulness to one's parents; lack of filial piety
- 忠孝ちゅうこうloyalty and filial piety
- 親不孝おやふこうlack of filial piety; disobedience to one's parents
- 親孝行おやこうこうfilial piety; being kind to one's parents
- 不孝者ふこうものunfilial son; undutiful son
- 仁義忠孝じんぎちゅうこうhumanity, justice, loyalty, and filial piety
- 奥さん孝行おくさんこうこうdevotion to one's wife; doing things for one's wife
- 女房孝行にょうぼうこうこうbeing devoted to one's wife; uxorious
- 孝こうfilial piety
- 孝女こうじょfilial daughter
- 孝子こうしfilial child
- 孝弟こうていfilial piety; brotherly love
- 孝心こうしんfilial devotion
- 孝悌こうていfilial piety; brotherly love
- 孝敬こうけいfilial piety
- 孝経こうきょうthe Book of Filial Piety
- 孝行のしたい時分に親はなしこうこうのしたいじぶんにおやはなしwhen you will wish to be filial, your parents will already be gone
- 孝行のしたい時分に親は無しこうこうのしたいじぶんにおやはなしwhen you will wish to be filial, your parents will already be gone
- 孝道こうどうfilial piety
- 孝順こうじゅんobedience; filial piety
- 孝養こうようfilial duties; devotion to one's parents
- 忠孝両全ちゅうこうりょうぜんbeing a good son and a loyal subject; possessing loyalty and filial piety
- 忠孝仁義ちゅうこうじんぎloyalty, filial piety, humanity, and justice
- 至孝しこうsupreme filial piety
Other readings
- 身体髪膚これを父母に受くあえて毀傷せざるは孝の始なりしんたいはっぷこれをふぼにうくあえてきしょうせざるはこうのはじめなりfilial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)
- 身体髪膚これを父母に受くあえて毀傷せざるは孝の始めなりしんたいはっぷこれをふぼにうくあえてきしょうせざるはこうのはじめなりfilial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)
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