孝
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filial piety or obedience; mourning apparel
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,544 U+5B5D
How 孝 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A young man 子 carrying an older man 耂
How to remember it
filial piety · Heisig RSH #1035
Santa Claus + 子 child
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 孝 as their sound component
These characters all use 孝 (xiào) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孝 sound component | xiào | filial piety, obedience; mourning |
| 教 | jiào | school, education |
| 酵 | jiào | yeast; to leaven |
| 哮 | xiào | to cough; to pant; to roar |
Words containing 孝
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不孝有三，无后为大 | bù xiào yǒu sān , wú hòu wéi dà | there are three ways to be unfilial; having no sons is the worst (from Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi… |
| 孝南区 | Xiào nán Qū | Xiaonan, a district of Xiaogan City 孝感市[Xiao4 gan3 Shi4], Hubei |
| 孝义市 | Xiào yì Shì | Xiaoyi, a county-level city in Lüliang City 呂梁市|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4], Shanxi |
| 二十四孝 | Èr shí sì Xiào | the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty |
| 孝成王 | Xiào chéng Wáng | King Xiaocheng of Zhao 趙國|赵国, reigned 266-245 BC |
| 百善孝为先 | bǎi shàn xiào wéi xiān | of all virtues filial piety is most important (idiom) |
| 孝感市 | Xiào gǎn Shì | Xiaogan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] |
| 费孝通 | Fèi Xiào tōng | Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005), Chinese sociologist |
| 不孝 | bù xiào | unfilial |
| 孝子 | xiào zǐ | filial son |
| 孝昌县 | Xiào chāng Xiàn | Xiaochang, a county in Xiaogan City 孝感市[Xiao4 gan3 Shi4], Hubei |
| 孝心 | xiào xīn | filial piety (a Confucian obligation); respect and obedience to one's parents |
| 孝道 | xiào dao | filial piety (Confucian virtue); to be a good son or daughter |
| 孝南 | Xiào nán | see 孝南區|孝南区[Xiao4 nan2 Qu1] |
| 孝义 | Xiào yì | see 孝義市|孝义市[Xiao4 yi4 Shi4] |
| 重孝 | zhòng xiào | mourning dress |
| 孝经 | Xiào jīng | Xiaojing (Classic of Filial Piety) |
| 朱孝天 | Zhū Xiào tiān | Ken Zhu (1979-), Taiwanese singer and actor |
| 明孝陵 | Míng xiào líng | Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1],… |
| 带孝 | dài xiào | variant of 戴孝[dai4 xiao4] |