HSK 5 · Adjectives

孝顺 xiàoshùn “filial” in Chinese

Traditional 孝順

What 孝顺 means

  1. filial
  2. dutiful
  3. devoted to one’s parents (and grandparents etc)
  4. to show filial piety towards (an older family member)
  5. filial piety

How to say 孝顺

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale孝xiào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale顺shùn4th tone, falling

孝顺 in a sentence

  1. 他很孝顺，每个周末都回家看父母。

    Tā hěn xiàoshùn, měi ge zhōumò dōu huíjiā kàn fùmǔ.

    He’s a devoted son and goes home to see his parents every weekend.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 孝顺父母是中国的传统美德。

    Xiàoshùn fùmǔ shì Zhōngguó de chuántǒng měidé.

    Being devoted to your parents is a traditional Chinese virtue.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 孝顺 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 孝 (xiào) with each of its parts in a different colour
孝xiàofilial piety or obedience
  • 耂old form of 老 · lǎo
  • 子child · zǐ
The character 顺 (shùn) with each of its parts in a different colour
顺shùnto obey
  • 川stream · chuānSound part
  • 页page · xiéMeaning part

页 hints at the meaning (page); 川 (chuān) hints at the sound. Compare it with shùn.

How to write 孝顺

孝 7 strokes · 顺 9 strokes

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孝顺 (xiàoshùn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 孝顺 (xiàoshùn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 孝顺

Words with 顺

顺利shùnlì · smoothly顺便shùnbiàn · conveniently顺序shùnxù · sequence一帆风顺yìfānfēngshùn · plain sailing

More words: Adjectives

鲜艳xiānyàn · bright-coloured现实xiànshí · reality相似xiāngsì · similar小气xiǎoqì · stingy斜xié · inclined虚心xūxīn · open-minded迅速xùnsù · rapid严肃yánsù · solemn

FAQs

孝顺 (xiàoshùn) means “filial” or “dutiful”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it xiàoshùn: xiào with a 4th tone, then shùn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 孝顺 is written 孝順. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiaoshun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 孝顺 from the suggestions. Typing xiaoshun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
孝顺 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.