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JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

親おや孝こう行こう

oyakoukou

to be good to one’s parents

Example sentences

  1. 親孝行おやこうこうな息子むすこさんがいるから、老後ろうごの心配しんぱいしなくていいわね。

    It must be nice having such a loyal son. You don’t have to wonder if you’ll be taken care of in your old age.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 親孝行おやこうこうしたいときには親おやはなし。

    By the time you wish to be a good son, your parents are long gone.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 明治時代めいじじだいの国定教科書こくていきょうかしょでも、特とくに秀吉ひでよしが親孝行おやこうこうであったと記述きじゅつされているほどである。

    There is a description in an official textbook in Meiji Period that Hideyoshi was a dutiful son especially.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 親孝行

  • 親parent; intimacyOnシンKunおや・おや-・したしい
  • 孝filial piety; child's respectOnコウ・キョウ
  • 行go; carry outOnコウ・ギョウ・アンKunいく・ゆく・おこなう

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