安贫乐道
ān pín lè dào
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Traditional: 安貧樂道
To live contentedly in poverty while holding to one's principles and finding joy in them. A Confucian ideal, used in praise of scholars and others who care nothing for wealth.
Yên lòng với cảnh nghèo, lấy việc giữ đạo làm vui. Đây là lý tưởng sống của nhà nho, dùng để khen những người coi nhẹ giàu sang, giữ trọn nhân cách.
Register: literary
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): etymology of “an bần lạc đạo” = 安貧樂道 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “an bần lạc đạo” (an-ban-lac-dao). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
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Common questions
What does “安贫乐道” mean?
To live contentedly in poverty while holding to one's principles and finding joy in them. A Confucian ideal, used in praise of scholars and others who care nothing for wealth. Literally: at peace in poverty, joyful in the way
Is “安贫乐道” formal or informal?
安贫乐道 is generally literary.