慇懃を通ずる

Japanese
Kanji in this term
慇 懃 通
いん
Hyōgaiji		 ぎん
Hyōgaiji		 つう
Grade: 2
kan’on kan’yōon goon

Etymology

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

既罷，相如乃使人重賜文君侍者通殷勤。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
既罢，相如乃使人重赐文君侍者通殷勤。 [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

慇(いん)懃(ぎん)を通(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, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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