DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

援助交際

简援助交际 · 繁援助交際

Mandarin · pinyin yuán zhù jiāo jì

Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts to women for their companionship and sexual favors

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

援: yuán · aid, assist; lead; cite
助: zhù · help, aid, assist
交: jiāo · mix; intersect; exchange, communicate; deliver
際: Look up this written character
际: jì · border, boundary, juncture

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–4–1–4 · yuan2 zhu4 jiao1 ji4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

援助交際 · find source passages ↗ · 援助交际 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

wun4 zo6 gaau1 zai3

Cantonese word readings for 援助交際. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

noun

dating with compensation (payments, financial support, etc.); schoolgirl prostitution

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack