暗中

Chinese

		dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret	middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing something); 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

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 Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: am-chûng
  - Hakka Romanization System: am zung^ˊ
  - 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

in the dark (being somewhere without light)
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)

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