发生关系

發生關係
fāshēng guānxi
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to have sexual relations
  2. 2 to come into contact with; to have dealings with

Examples

HSK 2
Tāmen zài yìqǐ búdào yí ge yuè jiù fāshēng guānxi le.
They slept together less than a month after they started dating.
HSK 7-9
Tā fǒurèn zài rènzhí qījiān yǔ xiàshǔ fāshēng guānxi.
He denied having had sexual relations with a subordinate while in office.

Tips

register
A polite euphemism for sex: more neutral than 做爱 and less clinical than 性交. Because of that, avoid it for the older literal sense "to have dealings with". That sense survives mostly with a word in between, as in 发生业务关系 "to have business dealings".

Stroke Order

发 fā
生 shēng
关 guān
系 xì