Word Meaning 父母の恩は山よりも高く海よりも深し

ふぼのおんはやまよりもたかくうみよりもふかし fubo no on ha yamayorimotakakuumiyorimofukashi

父母の恩は山よりも高く海よりも深し is read as ふぼのおんはやまよりもたかくうみよりもふかし (fubo no on ha yamayorimotakakuumiyorimofukashi) and means our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea.

Meaning

English

our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea

Reading

Kana

ふぼのおんはやまよりもたかくうみよりもふかし

Romaji

fubo no on ha yamayorimotakakuumiyorimofukashi

Stroke Sequence

17 Characters • 72 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 6 Rank 87601 Priority N

Related Vocabulary

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父母

ふぼ

father and mother

父母会

ふぼかい

a parents' association

父母の許

ふぼのもと

under one's parents roof

養父母

ようふぼ

adoptive parents

深山独活

みやまうど

Aralia glabra (species of spikenard)

深山金梅

みやまきんばい

cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae)

津山工業高等専門学校

つやまこうぎょうこうとうせんもんがっこう

National Institute of Technology, Tsuyama College

山高きが故に貴からず

やまたかきがゆえにたっとからず

don't judge a book by its cover

義父母

ぎふぼ

parents-in-law

深山東菊

みやまあずまぎく

Thunberg's fleabane (Erigeron thunbergii)

深山桜

みやまざくら

mountain cherry tree

身体髪膚これを父母に受くあえて毀傷せざるは孝の始なり

しんたいはっぷこれをふぼにうくあえてきしょうせざるはこうのはじめなり

filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)