義ぎ理り人にん情じょう

noun

duty and humanity; moral obligation and humane feelings

A yojijukugo expressing the interplay between social/moral duty (義理) and human compassion (人情). Often used when discussing the tension or balance between obligation and personal feeling.

• 彼かれは義ぎ理り人にん情じょうに厚あつい人ひとだ。

  He is a person with a strong sense of duty and compassion.

• 義ぎ理り人にん情じょうの板いた挟ばさみになって苦くるしんだ。

  I suffered, caught between duty and human feeling.