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孝顺 xiào shùn filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety
xiào filial piety or obedience / mourning apparel
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
孝悌 xiào filial piety and fraternal duty
反哺 fǎn to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
愚孝 xiào unquestioning filial piety
跪乳 guì (literary) (of a lamb) to kneel to suckle at the breast (used as a metaphor for filial piety)
哭丧棒 sāng bàng mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety
尝粪 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
丧棒 sāng bàng funeral stick (held by the son as a sign of filial piety)
四德 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
百善孝为先 bǎi shàn xiào wéi xiān of all virtues filial piety is most important (idiom)
二十四孝 Èr shí Xiào the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
孝悌忠信 xiào 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
乌鸟私情 niǎo qíng lit. the solicitude of the crow (who provides for his old parent)(idiom) / fig. filial piety
十三经 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]
孝经 Xiào jīng Xiaojing (Classic of Filial Piety)


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