孝

孝 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十大弓木 (JKND), four-corner 4440₇, composition ⿱耂子)

• 侾, 哮, 涍, 㹲, 㫴, 㭳, 硣, 誟, 踍, 酵, 教, 宯, 䓔, 窙, 庨, 痚

• 老

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 278, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6952
• Dae Jaweon: page 546, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1011, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5B5D

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 耂 (“an old man with long hair, bent over”) + 子 (“a child”) – an old man and a child, filial piety between generations. Compare top component to 老 (OC *ruːʔ, “old”).

孝

1. to do one's filial duty; to show filial piety

   • 宗族稱孝焉，鄉黨稱弟焉。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     宗族称孝焉，乡党称弟焉。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zōngzú chēng xiào yān, xiāngdǎng chēng tì yān. [Pinyin]

     He whom the circle of his relatives pronounce to be filial, whom his fellow villagers and neighbors pronounce to be fraternal.

2. filial piety; filial duty
3. mourning
4. mourning dress
5. (Southern Min) to offer up sacrifices (to gods or ancestors)
6. (Mainland China Hokkien) custom and etiquette to be observed after the death of one's seniors
7. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, vulgar, derogatory) to eat
8. a surname
9. (Internet slang, derogatory) to exhibit excessive or blind support for a person or thing

• (to do one's filial duty):

• (filial piety):

• “孝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “孝”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 178.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Nanori: たか (taka)、たかし (takashi)、のり (nori)、よし (yoshi)

• 孝(こう)敬(けい) (kōkei, “filial piety”)
• 孝(こう)行(こう) (kōkō, “filial piety”)
• 孝(こう)心(しん) (kōshin, “filial devotion”)
• 不(ふ)孝(こう) (fukō, “unfilial”)

From Middle Chinese 孝 (MC xaewH).

• (Tokyo) こー [kóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ː]

孝(こう) • (kō) ^{←かう (kau)?}

1. filial piety

• IPA^(key): [ta̠ka̠ɕi]

孝(たかし) • (Takashi) 

1. a male given name

孝 (eumhun 효도 효 (hyodo hyo))

1. hanja form^? of 효 (“filial piety”)

孝: Hán Việt readings: hiếu^[1][2][3]
孝: Nôm readings: hiếu^[1][2], héo^[1], hếu^[3]

1. chữ Hán form of hiếu (“filial piety”)