暗忖

Chinese

		dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret	ponder; consider; guess
simp. and trad. (暗忖)		暗	忖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): àncǔn

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˋ ㄘㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): am³ cyun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: àncǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˋ ㄘㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: àncǔn
    • Wade–Giles: an⁴-tsʻun³
    • Yale: àn-tswǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: anntsoen
    • Palladius: аньцунь (anʹcunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵¹ t͡sʰu̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: am³ cyun²
    • Yale: am chyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: am³ tsyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: em³ qun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐm³³ t͡sʰyːn³⁵/

Verb

暗忖

1. (archaic, literary) to secretly think
   • 2023, “過度關注組”, in Juntos‎^[1], performed by RubberBand:

     心中暗忖　讚賞批評 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     心中暗忖　赞赏批评 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     sam¹ zung¹ am³ cyun², zaan³ soeng² pai¹ ping⁴ [Jyutping]

     secretly thinking about [others'] praise [and] criticism