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In Mandarin, do the words for ‘love’, ‘duty’, ‘humanity’ and ‘virtue’, phonetically sound like ài zé rén dé?

There is a Korean War anecdote that Chinese soldiers were instructed by leaflets to say those words when approaching American soldiers who would interpret them as "I surrender".

Can anyone confirm (or deny) the pronunciation of those words in Mandarin?
FWIW, Google translate pronounces those words as Ài, zérèn, rénxìng, měidé

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