暗中

暗中

Chinese

		dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret	middle; center; within middle; center; 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

• Min Nan

  (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)⁺
    • 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/
• Min Nan
  • (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):

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Synonyms of 暗中

暗下 (ànxià) 暗地 (àndì) (literary) 私下 (sīxià) 私底下 (sīdǐxià) 私自 (sīzì) 背地 (bèidì) 尻川後／尻川后 (Min Nan) 尻脊後／尻脊后 (Min Nan)

暗下裡／暗下里 (ànxiàlǐ) 暗地裡／暗地里 (àndìlǐ) 暗裡／暗里 (ànlǐ) 暗靜／暗静 (Min Nan) 私下裡／私下里 (sīxiàlǐ) 背地裡／背地里 (bèidìlǐ) 背後／背后 (bèihòu)

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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