私下

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	under; next; lower under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter
simp. and trad. (私下)		私	下

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīxià

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄒㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ haa⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ̂-ha
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sir-hǎ / su-hā / su-hēe

  (Teochew, Peng'im): se¹ ê⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīxià
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄒㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihsià
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-hsia⁴
    • Yale: sz̄-syà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syshiah
    • Palladius: сыся (sysja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ haa⁶
    • Yale: sī hah
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ haa⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ ha⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ haː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̂-ha
    • Hakka Romanization System: sii´ ha
    • Hagfa Pinyim: si¹ ha⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sɨ²⁴⁻¹¹ ha⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir-hǎ
    • Tâi-lô: sir-hǎ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³ ha²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-hā
    • Tâi-lô: su-hā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: su'ha
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ ha³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴⁻²² ha²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-hēe
    • Tâi-lô: su-hēe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴⁻²² hɛ²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: se¹ ê⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sṳ ĕ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɯ³³⁻²³ e³⁵/

Adverb

私下

1. in secret; in private; surreptitiously; behind someone's back; privately; on the sly
2. without appropriate procedure

Synonyms

• (privately):

• 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)
• 暗中 (ànzhōng)
• 暗地 (àndì) (literary)
• 暗地裡／暗地里 (àndìlǐ)
• 暗裡／暗里 (ànlǐ)
• 暗靜／暗静 (Hokkien)
• 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)

 

Derived terms

• 私下裡／私下里 (sīxiàlǐ)