暗中

Chinese

		dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret	middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)
simp. and trad. (暗中)		暗	中

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ànzhōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˋ ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): am³ zung¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): am-chûng

  (Meixian, Guangdong): am⁴ zung¹

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): àm-tiong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): am³ dang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ànzhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˋ ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ànjhong
    • Wade–Giles: an⁴-chung¹
    • Yale: àn-jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: annjong
    • Palladius: аньчжун (anʹčžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: am³ zung¹
    • Yale: am jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: am³ dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: em³ zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐm³³ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: am-chûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: am zung´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: am⁴ zung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /am⁵⁵ t͡suŋ²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: am⁴ zung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /am⁵³ t͡sʊŋ⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: àm-tiong
    • Tâi-lô: àm-tiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: armdiofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /am²¹⁻⁵³ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /am⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tiɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /am²¹⁻⁵³ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /am¹¹⁻⁵³ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /am²¹⁻⁴¹ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: am³ dang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: àm tang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /am²¹³⁻⁵⁵ taŋ³³/

Adverb

暗中

1. in the dark (being somewhere without light)
2. in secret; in private; surreptitiously; behind someone's back; privately; on the sly

   在暗中做事  ―  zài ànzhōng zuòshì  ―  to do things in secret

Synonyms

• (in the dark): 黑暗中 (hēi'àn zhōng)
• (in secret):

• 尻川後／尻川后 (Hokkien, Teochew, Leizhou Min)
• 尻脊後／尻脊后 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 暗下 (ànxià)
• 暗下裡／暗下里 (ànxiàlǐ)
• 暗地 (àndì) (literary)
• 暗地裡／暗地里 (àndìlǐ)
• 暗裡／暗里 (ànlǐ)
• 暗靜／暗静 (Hokkien)
• 私下 (sīxià)
• 私下裡／私下里 (sīxiàlǐ)
• 私底下
• 私自 (sīzì)
• 背地 (bèidì)
• 背地裡／背地里 (bèidìlǐ)
• 背後／背后 (bèihòu)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
暗	中
あん Grade: 3	ちゅう Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

暗(あん)中(ちゅう) • (anchū) 

1. the situation in the dark

Derived terms

• 暗中模索(あんちゅうもさく) (anchūmosaku): groping in the dark, investigation, struggling, or probing without any clues