Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese · Vietnamese
孝
“an old man with long hair, bent over”·“a child”
孝 is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and Japanese and VietnameseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Takashi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
孝 is built from elements meaning “an old man with long hair, bent over” and “a child”.
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孝’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 孝 can be written in the Roman alphabet as TAKASHI.
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Spellings & scripts 1
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Across languages 1
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