慇懃を通ずる

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 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
,相如使人文君侍者殷勤 [Traditional Chinese poetry, 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. [Pinyin]
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, editor (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