慇懃を通ずる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
いん
Hyōgai
ぎん
Hyōgai
つう
Grade: 2
kan'on kan'yōon goon

Etymology

Calque from Literary Chinese in 史記 (Shiki, Records of the Grand Historian):[1][2]

相如使人文君侍者殷勤 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
相如使人文君侍者殷勤 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
Jì bà, Xiàngrú nǎi shǐrén zhòng cì Wénjūn shìzhě tōng yīnqín.
When it was over, Xiangru ordered someone to generously reward Wenjun's servant in order to communicate intimacy on behalf of him.

Literally “communicate (with) intimacy”.

Idiom

(いん)(ぎん)(つう)ずる (ingin o tsūzuru

  1. to have a surreptitious sexual relationship with; to have an illicit love affair with

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN