filial piety

English

Etymology

filial +‎ piety

Noun

filial piety (uncountable)

1. 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

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