Deep, benevolent love, often parental or compassionate in nature. More formal and literary than 愛情.
A gaze filled with a mother's affection.
He raised the orphans with a loving heart.
That teacher showered her students with loving care.
She looked at the child with an expression full of loving warmth.
The grandmother watched over her grandchild with loving eyes.
慈悲 emphasizes compassion or mercy, often in a Buddhist or moral sense, while 慈愛 focuses on warm, nurturing love, especially parental.
情愛 refers to deep affection between people in a relationship, while 慈愛 emphasizes a protective, benevolent love, often from a superior to someone weaker.
慈愛 is compassionate, nurturing love (as from a parent or deity), a more literary and narrower word than the general term 愛.
慈愛 and 慈悲 both suggest compassionate love, but 慈悲 leans toward mercy or forgiveness while 慈愛 leans toward warm, protective affection.
Compound of 慈 (mercy, affection) and 愛 (love). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination has long been used to express deep, compassionate love.