孝
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filial piety or obedience; mourning apparel
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 子 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 孝
- Common rank
- #1,544
- Unicode
- U+5B5D
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
filial piety · Heisig RSH #1035
Santa Claus + 子 child
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 孝
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不孝有三，无后为大 | there are three ways to be unfilial; having no sons is the worst (from Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi… | |
| 孝南区 | Xiaonan, a district of Xiaogan City 孝感市[Xiao4 gan3 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 孝义市 | Xiaoyi, a county-level city in Lüliang City 呂梁市|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 二十四孝 | the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty | |
| 孝成王 | King Xiaocheng of Zhao 趙國|赵国, reigned 266-245 BC | |
| 百善孝为先 | of all virtues filial piety is most important (idiom) | |
| 孝感市 | Xiaogan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] | |
| 费孝通 | Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005), Chinese sociologist | |
| 不孝 | unfilial | |
| 孝子 | filial son | |
| 孝昌县 | Xiaochang, a county in Xiaogan City 孝感市[Xiao4 gan3 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 孝心 | filial piety (a Confucian obligation); respect and obedience to one's parents | |
| 孝道 | filial piety (Confucian virtue); to be a good son or daughter | |
| 孝南 | see 孝南區|孝南区[Xiao4 nan2 Qu1] | |
| 孝义 | see 孝義市|孝义市[Xiao4 yi4 Shi4] | |
| 重孝 | mourning dress | |
| 孝经 | Xiaojing (Classic of Filial Piety) | |
| 朱孝天 | Ken Zhu (1979-), Taiwanese singer and actor | |
| 明孝陵 | Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1],… | |
| 带孝 | variant of 戴孝[dai4 xiao4] |
Sound family
These characters use 孝 as their sound component — compare how they read.