noun
loyalty, filial piety, humanity, and justice
A set of four Confucian virtues often listed together in traditional moral discourse. The term is somewhat formal and literary, used mainly in discussions of ethics, history, or classical thought.
武士の心得として忠孝仁義が重んじられた。
Loyalty, filial piety, humanity, and justice were valued as the principles of the samurai.
この物語は忠孝仁義をテーマにしている。
This story has loyalty, filial piety, humanity, and justice as its theme.
A compound of four Confucian virtues: 忠 (loyalty), 孝 (filial piety), 仁 (humanity/benevolence), and 義 (justice/righteousness). The term is a fixed classical expression rather than a freely coined modern word.