だんしょう

See also: たんしょう, たんじょう, and だんじょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of だんしょう – see the following entries.

【談笑】 [noun] friendly chat [verb] to have a friendly chat

【断章】 [noun] fragment of a literary work [noun] Short for 断章取義 (danshōshugi, “quoting a passage and interpreting it without regard to its context”).

【男娼】 [noun] male prostitute

【男妾】 [noun] male paramour

(This term, だんしょう (danshō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)