Keyword
duty to one's parents
Info
FrequencyTop 2000-2100
Type
Kyōiku (6th grade) 
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KankenLevel 5
Heisig1342
Readings
こう
(75%)
Composed of
old grave
child
Mnemonic

What's one's ultimate duty to one's parents? When your parents die put them in the old grave that has been your family's resting place for generations, and while they're alive raise a child so that they can have a grandkid.

Used in kanji (3 in total)
teach
growl
fermentation
Used in vocabulary (27 in total)
filial piety; being kind to one's parents; taking care of one's parents
lack of filial piety; disobedience to one's parents
filial piety; showing devotion (to someone)
filial piety
undutifulness to one's parents; lack of filial piety; (arch.) (the crime of) cursing one's parents; (arch.) disowning one's child
filial child
unfilial son; undutiful son; thankless son; unfilial daughter; undutiful daughter; thankless daughter
loyalty and filial piety
filial devotion
filial duties; devotion to one's parents
the Book of Filial Piety
filial piety
filial piety; brotherly love
filial daughter
being devoted to one's wife; uxorious
filial piety
filial piety; brotherly love
being a good son and a loyal subject; possessing loyalty and filial piety
loyalty, filial piety, humanity, and justice
obedience; filial piety
supreme filial piety
devotion to one's wife; doing things for one's wife
humanity, justice, loyalty, and filial piety
when you will wish to be filial, your parents will already be gone
when you will wish to be filial, your parents will already be gone
filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)
filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)