淫声

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 淫声 – see 淫聲 (“licentious music”). (This term is the simplified form of 淫聲).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
淫	声
いん Grade: S	せい Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
淫聲 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ĩɰ̃se̞ː]

Noun

淫(いん)声(せい) • (insei) 

1. (literary) licentious music
   • Liu Xiang, Biographies of Exemplary Women, kanbun kundoku:

     目(め)邪(じゃ)色(しょく)を視(み)ず、耳(みみ)淫(いん)声(せい)を聴(き)かず

     me jashoku o mizu, mimi insei o kikazu

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   • 1989, 田中優子 [Yuko Tanaka], “淫声をめぐる時間と空間 [Charactersitics of samisen music]”, in 日本音響学会誌, →DOI:

     確(たし)かに三(しゃ)味(み)線(せん)は淫(いん)声(せい)だと思(おも)う。

     Tashika ni shamisen wa insei da to omou.

     I certainly believe that the sound of the shamisen is decadent.

2. (poetic) sounds made during lovemaking