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bexhaokotid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: be'haux'kof'tid [[...]][i#] [p.]

can't eat (vulgar), bad looking

難吃,難看

zaixsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]

be among the living, be living, be in the world, not dead

在世

• Zaixsvef ciah cit liap tau, khahhør syau haux ti'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef ciah cit liap tau, khaq'hør sie'au haux ty'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  It's better to take care of parents while they are alive rather than make a show of being filial at their funeral. (Lit. Better to give parents one bean when living rather than to offer them a pig's head after they die.)
  在生吃一粒豆,勝過死後孝豬頭。父母在世時好好孝敬,比在身後才大事祭拜有意義。

• Zaixsvef m haux na'aau, syau ciaq haux kvoazha'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef m haux naa'aau, sie'au ciaq haux kvoaf'zhaa'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  to pay respect to parents after they die after not taking care of them while they were living, unfilial
  父母在生不養,死後才想孝敬。

ciehaux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cix'haux [[...]][i#] [p.]

extremely filial

至孝

cixnhaux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cin'haux [[...]][i#] [p.]

fulfill one's duty to parents

盡孝

haux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: haux [[...]][i#] [p.]

filial piety, act in a filial manner, worship with offerings

孝

giamhu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: giaam'hu [[...]][i#] [p.]

stern father, my father (honorific)

嚴父

• giamhu zhud haozuo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: giaam'hu zhud haux'zuo [[...]][i#] [p.]
  a strict father makes obedient children
  嚴父出孝子

gu'tiofng gu'haux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: guu'tiofng guu'haux [[...]][i#] [p.]

blind devotion to one's lord and parents

愚忠愚孝

hax [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hax (haux) [[...]][i#] [p.]

mourning apparel worn for superiors, "haux" means filial piety

絰,孝

• toarhax [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: toax'hax [[...]][i#] [p.]
  wear a mourning badge or crape, be in mourning
  戴孝

haozuo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: haux'zuo [[...]][i#] [p.]

filial child

孝子

haoheeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: haux'heeng [[...]][i#] [p.]

filial devotion

孝行

haoiorng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: haux'iorng [[...]][i#] [p.]

care for parents

孝養

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