filial piety
The virtue of showing respect and doing good deeds for one's parents, elders, and…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 Sinosphere.
» To raise one's name in later generations and thereby glorify one's parents, this is the greatest expression of filial piety.
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1 senses(uncountable)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 Sinosphere.
kindliche Pietät
сыно́вняя почти́тельностьsynóvnjaja počtítelʹnostʹ
Examples
2 sentencesTo raise one's name in later generations and thereby glorify one's parents, this is the greatest expression of filial piety.
There are two things in the world that cannot wait: 1. Filial piety, 2. Doing good.
Translations
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Origin
From filial + piety.From filial + piety.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable