私隱

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	secret; hidden; concealed
trad. (私隱)		私	隱
simp. (私隐)		私	隐
anagram		隱私／隐私

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīyǐn

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ jan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīyǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihyǐn
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-yin³
    • Yale: sz̄-yǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syyiin
    • Palladius: сыинь (syinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ in²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ jan²
    • Yale: sī yán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ jan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ yen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ jɐn³⁵/

Noun

私隱

1. (chiefly literary or Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore) privacy

   侵犯私隱／侵犯私隐 [Cantonese]  ―  cam¹ faan⁶ si¹ jan² [Jyutping]  ―  to invade someone's privacy

Synonyms

• 包袱底兒／包袱底儿 (bāofudǐr) (regional, figurative)
• 後空／后空 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 隱私／隐私 (yǐnsī)

 

Derived terms

• 私隱權／私隐权 (sīyǐnquán)