"secretly" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 私自 | private / personal / secretly / without explicit approval | syn | |
| 偷偷 | stealthily / secretly / covertly / furtively / on the sly | syn | |
| 暗暗 | secretly / inwardly | syn | |
| 暗自 | inwardly / to oneself / secretly | syn | |
| 暗地里 暗地裡 | secretly / inwardly / on the sly | syn | |
| 暗地 | secretly / inwardly / on the sly | ||
| 私底下 | privately / secretly / confidentially | ||
| 背地里 背地裡 | behind sb's back / secretly | syn | |
| 窃窃 竊竊 | privately / secretly / unobtrusively | ||
| 背地 | secretly / in private / behind someone's back | ||
| 窃 竊 | to steal / secretly / (humble) I | syn | |
| 阉然 閹然 | covertly / secretly | ||
| 魆魆 | quietly / secretly | ||
| 暗里 暗裡 | privately / secretly / behind closed doors | ||
| 魆魆 | secretly / surreptitiously |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 潜移默化 潛移默化 | imperceptible influence / to influence secretly | syn | |
| 暗恋 暗戀 | to be secretly in love with | ||
| 溜走 | to slip away / to leave secretly | syn | |
| 偷听 偷聽 | to eavesdrop / to monitor (secretly) | syn | |
| 窃喜 竊喜 | to be secretly delighted | ||
| 探花 | candidate who came third in the Hanlin examination (cf. 狀元|状元[zhuang4yuan2]) / (slang) to secretly film sex with a prostitute to share on the Internet | ||
| 暗害 | to kill secretly / to stab in the back | syn | |
| 密告 | to report secretly / to tip off | ||
| 透 | (bound form) to penetrate / to seep through / to tell secretly / to leak / thoroughly / through and through / to appear / to show | syn | |
| 暗渡陈仓 暗渡陳倉 | lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion | ||
| 暗转 暗轉 | (theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene) / (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly | ||
| 密会 密會 | secret meeting / to meet secretly | ||
| 戳咕 | to stir up behind sb's back / to incite secretly | ||
| 挟带 挾帶 | to carry along / to carry on one's person / to carry secretly | syn | |
| 明修栈道，暗渡陈仓 明修棧道，暗渡陳倉 | lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion | ||
| 暗中监视 暗中監視 | to monitor secretly / to spy on | ||
| 私谋叛国 私謀叛國 | to secretly plan treason (idiom) | ||
| 米夫 | Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges | ||
| 打闷雷 打悶雷 | (coll.) to wonder secretly / to make wild conjectures | ||
| 曲线救国 曲線救國 | (of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists | ||
| 明里暗里 明裡暗裡 | both publicly and privately / both overtly and secretly / both explicitly and implicitly | ||
| 暗爽 | to be secretly delighted | ||
| 偷师 偷師 | to steal techniques / to learn secretly from sb else's skills or methods |