忠君爱国
zhōng jūn ài guó
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 忠君愛國
Loyal to the monarch and devoted to the country: the Confucian ideal expected of officials and subjects in imperial times. Used today mostly in history, historical fiction and talk about traditional values.
Trung với vua và yêu nước: lý tưởng đạo đức Nho giáo đặt ra cho quan lại, thần dân thời phong kiến. Ngày nay chủ yếu gặp khi nói về lịch sử, trong truyện và phim cổ trang, hoặc khi bàn về giá trị truyền thống.
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; etymology of “trung quân ái quốc” = 忠君愛國 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “trung quân ái quốc” (trung-quan-ai-quoc). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
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Common questions
What does “忠君爱国” mean?
Loyal to the monarch and devoted to the country: the Confucian ideal expected of officials and subjects in imperial times. Used today mostly in history, historical fiction and talk about traditional values. Literally: loyal to the ruler, love the country
Is “忠君爱国” formal or informal?
忠君爱国 is generally formal.