Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Open and upright; honorable and aboveboard: Describes a person's character or actions as being transparent, honest, and conducted without secrecy or deceit. It implies moral integrity and straightforwardness.
   • Clear and bright; luminous: An older or more literal meaning describing light or something that is radiant and illuminating.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Là một người quang minh, anh ấy không bao giờ nói xấu sau lưng. (As an honorable and aboveboard person, he never speaks ill of others behind their backs.)
  • Hãy sống một cuộc đời quang minh chính đại. (Live an open and upright life.)
  • Ánh sáng quang minh của ngọn đuốc xua tan bóng tối. (The luminous light of the torch dispelled the darkness.)

Advanced Usage

• "quang minh chính đại": This is the most common and fixed four-word idiom. It intensifies the meaning to "open, honorable, upright, and just," describing impeccable integrity and transparency in character and conduct.
  • Phong cách làm việc của ông ấy luôn quang minh chính đại. (His working style is always open and aboveboard.)

Variants and Related Words

• Quang minh lỗi lạc (adj): A literary phrase meaning "brilliant and illustrious," often used to describe a person of great virtue and outstanding reputation.

Synonyms

• Honorable: Having high moral principles.
• Aboveboard: Legitimate, honest, and open.
• Upright: Strictly honest or honorable.
• Transparent: Open, without secrets.

Related Idioms

• Quang minh chính đại: (See Advanced Usage). The primary idiom, meaning to be perfectly open and upright.
• Đường đường chính chính, quang minh lỗi lạc: A longer, more formal expression emphasizing dignity, correctness, and illustrious virtue.

adj

1. open
   • quang minh chính đại
     open and straigtforward