身しん体たい髪はっ膚ぷこれを父ふ母ぼに受うくあえて毀き傷しょうせざるは孝こうの始はじめなり

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filial piety begins with not harming one's own body

Proverb from The Classic of Filial Piety (孝経). Teaches that because one's body is a gift from one's parents, preserving it from injury is the first step of filial devotion. Used in traditional ethical contexts; rarely heard in daily conversation.

• 「身しん体たい髪はっ膚ぷこれを父ふ母ぼに受うくあえて毀き傷しょうせざるは孝こうの始はじめなり」という言こと葉ばは、孝こう経きょうの一いっ節せつです。

  The phrase 'filial piety begins with not harming one's own body, as one's entire body was given by one's parents' is a passage from The Classic of Filial Piety.