"Secretly" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 私自 | sī zì | private / personal / secretly / without explicit approval |   |
| 偷偷 | tōu tōu | stealthily / secretly / covertly / furtively / on the sly | |
| 暗暗 | àn àn | secretly / inwardly | |
| 暗自 | àn zì | inwardly / to oneself / secretly | |
| 暗地里 | àn dì li | secretly / inwardly / on the sly | |
| 暗地 | àn dì | secretly / inwardly | |
| 私底下 | sī dǐ xia | privately / secretly / confidentially | |
| 窃窃 | qiè qiè | privately / secretly / unobtrusively | |
| 背地 | bèi dì | secretly / in private / behind someone's back | |
| 窃 |  qiè | to steal / secretly / (humble) I | |
| 阉然 | yān rán | covertly / secretly | |
| 魆魆 | xù xù | quietly / secretly | |
| 暗里 | àn li | privately / secretly / behind closed doors | |
| 暗恋 | àn liàn | to be secretly in love with | |
| 溜走 | liū zǒu | to slip away / to leave secretly | |
| 潜移默化 | qián yí mò huà | imperceptible influence / to influence secretly | |
| 窃喜 | qiè xǐ | to be secretly delighted | |
| 暗害 | àn hài | to kill secretly / to stab in the back | |
| 密告 | mì gào | to report secretly / to tip off | |
| 暗渡陈仓 | àn dù Chén cāng | 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 | àn zhuǎn | (theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene) / (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly | |
| 密会 | mì huì | secret meeting / to meet secretly | |
| 戳咕 | chuō gū | to stir up behind sb's back / to incite secretly | |
| 挟带 | xié dài | to carry along / to carry on one's person / to carry secretly | |
| 明修栈道，暗渡陈仓 | míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù Chén cāng | 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 | àn zhōng jiān shì | to monitor secretly / to spy on | |
| 私谋叛国 | sī móu pàn guó | to secretly plan treason (idiom) | |
| 米夫 | Mǐ fū | Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges | |
| 打闷雷 | dǎ mèn léi | (coll.) to wonder secretly / to make wild conjectures | |
| 曲线救国 | qū xiàn jiù guó | (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 | míng lǐ àn lǐ | both publicly and privately / both overtly and secretly / both explicitly and implicitly | |
