爱人如己
ài rén rú jǐ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 愛人如己
To love and care for other people as much as for oneself. A moral ideal quoted in ethical and religious teaching; in Chinese it is also the usual wording of the Christian 'love your neighbour as yourself'.
Yêu thương người khác như chính mình. Là lý tưởng đạo đức thường gặp trong lời dạy về luân lý, tôn giáo; trong tiếng Trung đây cũng là lời dịch điều răn “yêu người lân cận như chính mình” của Kinh Thánh.
Register: formal
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 爱/愛 = ái · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “ái nhơn như kỷ” (ai-nhon-nhu-ky). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “爱人如己” mean?
To love and care for other people as much as for oneself. A moral ideal quoted in ethical and religious teaching; in Chinese it is also the usual wording of the Christian 'love your neighbour as yourself'. Literally: love other people as you love yourself
Is “爱人如己” formal or informal?
爱人如己 is generally formal.