潜台词 / 潛臺詞

qián​tái​cí

subtext

Unspoken dialogue in a play left for the audience to infer; (figuratively) the underlying meaning or implicit assertion behind someone's words.

潜 (literal) → 潜/潛 · qián · hidden 台词 (literal) → 台词/臺詞 · tái​cí · actor's lines

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM