The kanji 孝: meaning, readings and stroke order

孝

Meaning: care for parents
On reading: コウ kou
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 7
Radical: 子 child, seed
Level: Level 6 · grade 6

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: hiếu thảo (hiếu)
Japanese: おやをたいせつにする。
Korean: 효도 (효)
Chinese: 孝顺

Readings, words and example sentences

コウ kou · on reading

孝こう行こう
being good to one's parents
親孝こう行こうをしたいと思います。
I want to be good to my parents.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.