Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Loyal and faithful: Describes a person, especially a subject or official, who is unwavering in their devotion and fidelity to a ruler, cause, or principle. It combines the ideas of loyalty ("trung") and chastity/upright fidelity ("trinh").
   • Steadfast and upright: Emphasizes moral integrity and unwavering constancy in one's duties or commitments.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Ông ấy là một bầy tôi trung trinh. (He is a loyal and faithful subject.)
  • Lòng trung trinh là phẩm chất quý giá của một vị tướng. (Loyalty and faithfulness are precious qualities of a general.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is considered literary and archaic. It is most commonly found in historical texts, classical literature, or formal rhetoric to describe idealized, often feudal, virtues.

Variants and Related Words

• Trung thành (adj): Loyal, devoted. This is the modern and more common equivalent.
  • Người lính trung thành với tổ quốc. (The soldier is loyal to the homeland.)
• Trung nghĩa (adj): Loyal and righteous.
  • Một hành động trung nghĩa. (A loyal and righteous act.)

Synonyms

• Loyal: Giving or showing firm and constant support.
• Faithful: Remaining loyal and steadfast.
• Steadfast: Resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering.

Related Idioms

• Trung quân ái quốc: (Lit. Loyal to the king, love the country) An idiom denoting absolute loyalty to the monarch and the nation, closely related to the virtue of "trung trinh."
  • Tinh thần trung quân ái quốc. (The spirit of loyalty to the sovereign and love for the country.)