Japanese symbol for “indirectly”
暗に
あんに
Romaji: anni
implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication
In Japanese, indirectly is 暗に, read あんに (anni).
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Meanings
- adv implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “indirectly”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其れと無く | それとなく soretonaku | indirectly; obliquely; implicitly |
| 其れと無しに | それとなしに soretonashini | indirectly |
| 其とはなしに | それとはなしに soretohanashini | indirectly |
| 余所ながら | よそながら yosonagara | while at a distance; indirectly; casually |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暗殺 | あんさつ ansatsu | assassination |
| 真っ暗 | まっくら makkura | pitch-dark; pitch-black; completely dark |
| 暗号 | あんごう angou | code; password; cipher |
| 暗い | くらい kurai | dark; gloomy; murky |
| 暗黙 | あんもく anmoku | tacit; unspoken; implicit |
| 暗黒 | あんこく ankoku | darkness |
See also: Chinese symbol for “indirectly”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.