English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
filial + piety
filial piety (uncountable)
- The virtue of showing respect and doing good deeds for one's parents, elders, and ancestors, as understood in Confucian ethics and commonly observed in the East Asian cultural sphere.
Translations[edit]
respect to one's parents and ancestors
- Arabic: بِرّ اَلْوَالِدَيْن (birr al-wālidayn)
- Catalan: pietat filial f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 孝 (zh) (xiào), 孝心 (zh) (xiàoxīn), 孝順/孝顺 (zh) (xiàoshùn), 孝道 (zh) (xiàodào), 盡孝/尽孝 (zh) (jìnxiào) (to observe filial piety), 孝敬 (zh) (xiàojìng) (to show filial respect), 孝行 (zh) (xiàoxíng) (literary; acts of filial piety)
- Czech: úcta k stáří f
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: kinderlijke gehoorzaamheid
- Finnish: vanhempien kunnioitus
- French: piété filiale (fr) f
- German: kindliche Pietät f
- Japanese: 親孝行 (ja) (おやこうこう, oyakōkō)
- Korean: 효행(孝行) (ko) (hyohaeng), 효심(孝心) (ko) (hyosim), 효도(孝道) (ko) (hyodo), 효(孝) (hyo)
- Portuguese: piedade filial f
- Russian: сыно́вняя почти́тельность f (synóvnjaja počtítelʹnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: štovanje starijih n
- Spanish: piedad filial f
- Vietnamese: lòng hiếu thảo, hiếu thảo (vi), hiếu (vi), chữ hiếu
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