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.
Loyalty, filial piety, humanity, and justice were valued as the principles of the samurai.
This story has loyalty, filial piety, humanity, and justice as its theme.
Refers specifically to loyalty and devotion, often to a lord or cause, without the other three virtues.
Means filial piety as a concrete act or behavior, more everyday than 忠孝仁義.
Refers to humanity and justice as a pair, often used in the context of yakuza codes or traditional morality.
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.