明里暗里 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 明裡暗裡 mínglǐànlǐ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄢˋ ㄌㄧˇ both publicly and privately both overtly and secretly both explicitly and implicitly Character by character 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 里(lǐ)lining 暗(àn)dark 里(lǐ)lining A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0