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Jyutping haau3
Pinyin xiào

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. filial piety or obedience
  2. mourning apparel
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. filial piety or obedience/mourning apparel/the Hau group, a sub group of the 14K triad gang
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
  1. 語素
    盡心​盡力​咁​侍養​屋企​嘅​長​輩​,​回報​養育​之恩
    (of descendants in a family) filial piety
    • 孝順
      孝顺
      haau3 seon6
      to have filial piety
    • 不孝
      不孝
      bat1 haau3
      unfilial
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. character
    to do one's filial duty; to show filial piety
  2. character
    filial piety; filial duty
  3. character
    mourning
  4. character
    mourning dress
  5. character, Taiwanese-Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, derogatory, vulgar
    to eat
  6. character
    a surname
  7. character, Hokkien, Mainland-China
    custom and etiquette to be observed after the death of one's seniors
  8. character, Min-Nan
    to offer up sacrifices (to gods or ancestors)
Definitions (Unihan)
  1. filial piety, obedience
  2. mourning
  3. Cangjie Input
    JKND
Definitions (HSK3.0)
  1. HSK3 七一九级汉字表 #960
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    世上有两件事不能等:一、孝顺 二、行善。
    世上有兩件事不能等:一、孝順 二、行善。
    shì shàng yǒu liǎng jiàn shì bù néng děng : yī 、 xiào shùn èr 、 xíng shàn 。
    • There are two things in the world that cannot wait: 1. Filial piety, 2. Doing good.
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    你呢个不孝子!做埋咁多衰嘢激阿妈,系咪想激死老母揾山拜?
    你呢個不孝子!做埋咁多衰嘢激阿媽,係咪想激死老母揾山拜?
    nei5 ni1 go3 bat1 haau3 zi2! zou6 maai4 gam3 do1 seoi1 je5 gik1 aa3 maa1, hai6 mai6 soeng2 gik1 sei2 lou5 mou2 wan2 saan1 baai3?
    • You unfilial son ! You did so many evil affairs to provoke your mum, do you want to drive her to the grave ?
  2. Cantonese
    你呢个不孝子!做埋咁多衰嘢激阿爸,系咪想激死老豆揾山拜?
    你呢個不孝子!做埋咁多衰嘢激阿爸,係咪想激死老豆揾山拜?
    nei5 ni1 go3 bat1 haau3 zi2! zou6 maai4 gam3 do1 seoi1 je5 gik1 aa3 baa4, hai6 mai6 soeng2 gik1 sei2 lou5 dau6 wan2 saan1 baai3?
    • You unfilial son! You did so many awful things to provoke your father. Do you want to drive him to his grave?
  3. Cantonese
    孝文汉化
    孝文漢化
    haau3 man4 hon3 faa3
    • X
  4. Cantonese
    披麻戴孝
    披麻戴孝
    pei1 maa4 daai3 haau3
    • to wear mourning clothes
    • to wear hemp clothes and white hats
  5. Cantonese
    妈咪无微不至噉照顾我哋,我哋好应该孝顺佢嘅。
    媽咪無微不至噉照顧我哋,我哋好應該孝順佢嘅。
    maa1 mi4 mou4 mei4 bat1 zi3 gam2 ziu3 gu3 ngo5 dei6, ngo5 dei6 hou2 jing1 goi1 haau3 seon6 keoi5 ge3.
    • Mum looks after us meticulously, we should be filial towards her.
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    孝顺是中华民族的传统美德。
    孝順是中華民族的傳統美德。
    xiào shùn shì zhōng huá mín zú de chuán tǒng měi dé .
    • Filial piety is a traditional virtue of the Chinese people.
  2. Mandarin
    菲饮食,而致孝乎鬼神。
    菲飲食,而致孝乎鬼神。
    fěi yǐn shí , ér zhì xiào hū guǐ shén .
    • He used himself coarse food and drink, but displayed the utmost filial piety towards the spirits.
  3. Mandarin
    披麻戴孝
    披麻戴孝
    pī má dài xiào
    • to wear the hemp garments of mourning
  4. Mandarin
    子女忤逆不孝实在令父母寒心。
    子女忤逆不孝實在令父母寒心。
    zǐ nǚ wǔ nì bù xiào shí zài lìng fù mǔ hán xīn .
    • Wayward children who are unfilial make their parents disappointed.
    • Wayward children who are unfilial are a disappointment to their parents.
    • Children who are wayward and unfilial are a disappointment to their parents.
  5. Mandarin
    “山东我见到过太多的家暴党的例子了……不孝有三,无后为大的观念根深蒂固,但是我的精子没有活性……为了这事我爸差点跟我闹翻了。”
    “山東我見到過太多的家暴黨的例子了……不孝有三,無後為大的觀念根深蒂固,但是我的精子沒有活性……為了這事我爸差點跟我鬧翻了。”
    “ shān dōng wǒ jiàn dào guò tài duō de jiā bào dǎng de lì zi le . . . . . . bù xiào yǒu sān , wú hòu wèi dà de guān niàn gēn shēn dì gù , dàn shì wǒ de jīng zǐ méi yǒu huó xìng . . . . . . wèi le zhè shì wǒ bà chā diǎn gēn wǒ nào fān le . ”
    • I have seen too many cases of transgender people suffering domestic violence in Shandong… the notion that "there are three ways to be unfilial; the worst is to not produce offspring" has been deeply ingrained in the minds of many, but my sperms weren't active… my dad almost fell out with me about this.