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- xiaolian, two examination subjects in Han, later a single subject in Ming and Qing
- successful second degree candidate
- filial piety (a Confucian obligation)
- respect and obedience to one's parents
Trad. 滿孝
- at the end of the mourning period
- to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
- to show filial respect
- to give presents (to one's elders or superiors)
- to support one's aged parents
Trad. 孝肅
- Xiaosu, posthumous name of Bao Zheng 包拯[Bao1 Zheng3] (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty
Trad. 孝順
- filial
- dutiful
- devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc)
- to show filial piety towards (an older family member)
- filial piety
- Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], a World Heritage site
- Duke Xiao of Qin, 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], ruled 361-338 BC during the Warring States Period
- Zeng Xiaogu (1873-1937), actor and pioneer of Chinese drama in New Culture style
Trad. 孝南區
- Xiaonan, a district of Xiaogan City 孝感市[Xiao4 gan3 Shi4], Hubei
- Xiaogan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3]
Trad. 孝昌縣
- Xiaochang, a county in Xiaogan City 孝感市[Xiao4 gan3 Shi4], Hubei
Trad. 孝義市
- Xiaoyi, a county-level city in Lüliang City 呂梁市|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4], Shanxi
Trad. 孝聖憲
- Empress Xiaoshengxian (1693-1777), consort of Emperor Yongzheng 雍正[Yong1 zheng4] and mother of Emperor Qianlong 乾隆[Qian2 long2]
Trad. 披麻帶孝
- to wear mourning clothes
- to be in mourning
- also written 披麻戴孝
- to wear mourning clothes
- to be in mourning
- also written 披麻帶孝|披麻带孝
- benevolent father, filial son (idiom)
- natural love between parents and children
- the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
- 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
Trad. 百善孝為先
- of all virtues filial piety is most important (idiom)
Trad. 不孝有三，無後為大
- there are three ways to be unfilial; having no sons is the worst (from Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3])