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慇懃を通ずる

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Japanese

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

Etymology

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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. [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

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(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

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  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