孝悌忠信
Traditional form:
孝悌忠信
Pinyin (reading):
xiàotìzhōngxìn
Definitions:
- Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity
- piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends
Characters:
- 孝 - filial piety, obedience; mourning
- 悌 - respectful, brotherly
- 忠 - loyalty, devotion, fidelity
- 信 - to trust, to believe; letter, sign
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