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"unquestioning filial piety" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
愚孝 yú xiào unquestioning filial piety
Chinese Pinyin Translation
孝顺 孝順 xiào shùn filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety syn
二十四孝 èr shí sì xiào the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
孝心 xiào xīn filial piety (a Confucian obligation) / respect and obedience to one's parents syn
反哺 fǎn bǔ to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
孝道 xiào dao filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter syn
孝经 孝經 xiào jīng Xiaojing (Classic of Filial Piety)
孝悌 xiào tì filial piety and fraternal duty
十三经 十三經 shí sān jīng the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], Book of History 尚書|尚书[Shang4 shu1], Rites of Zhou 周禮|周礼[Zhou1 li3], Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮|仪礼[Yi2 li3], Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], Mr Zuo's Annals 左傳|左传[Zuo3 Zhuan4], Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊傳|公羊传[Gong1 yang2 Zhuan4], Mr Guliang's Annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传[Gu3 liang2 Zhuan4], The Analects 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], Erya 爾雅|尔雅[Er3 ya3], Classic of Filial Piety 孝經|孝经[Xiao4 jing1], Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] syn
孝 xiào filial piety or obedience / mourning apparel syn
乌鸟私情 烏鳥私情 wū niǎo sī qíng lit. the solicitude of the crow (who provides for his old parent)(idiom) / fig. filial piety
哭丧棒 哭喪棒 kū sāng bàng mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety
丧棒 喪棒 sāng bàng funeral stick (held by the son as a sign of filial piety)
百善孝为先 百善孝為先 bǎi shàn xiào wéi xiān of all virtues filial piety is most important (idiom)
尝粪 嘗糞 cháng fèn to taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety) / to suck up to sb / to kiss ass
跪乳 guì rǔ (literary) (of a lamb) to kneel to suckle at the breast (used as a metaphor for filial piety)
孝悌忠信 xiào tì zhōng xìn Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity / piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends
四德 sì dé four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功
虔信 qián xìn piety / devotion (to a religion) / pious (believer) / devout
孝敬 xiào jìng to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents syn
孝子 xiào zǐ filial son syn
尽孝 盡孝 jìn xiào to do one's filial duty
孝思不匮 孝思不匱 xiào sī bù kuì to be forever filial (idiom)
寝苫枕块 寢苫枕塊 qǐn shān zhěn kuài bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period
昏定晨省 hūn dìng chén xǐng seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)
父慈子孝 fù cí zǐ xiào benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
割股疗亲 割股療親 gē gǔ liǎo qīn to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom) / filial thigh-cutting
满孝 滿孝 mǎn xiào at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
满服 滿服 mǎn fú at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
割股疗亲 割股療親 gē gǔ liáo qīn to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom) / filial thigh-cutting
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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