贼

How to write 贼, stroke by stroke

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What 贼 means

thief; robber; (bound form) traitor; subversive; (bound form) evil; wicked; sly; shifty; devious; (literary) to harm; to injure; (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)

Pictophonetic: semantic 戎 (weapons), phonetic 贝

Made of 贝 + 戎

Words with 贼

• 盗贼dào zéirobber
• 海贼hǎi zéipirate
• 窃贼qiè zéithief
• 乌贼wū zéicuttlefish
• 卖国贼mài guó zéitraitor
• 山贼shān zéibrigand
• 叛贼pàn zéirenegade; traitor
• 抓贼zhuā zéito catch a thief
• 作贼zuò zéito be a thief
• 反贼fǎn zéi(imperial China) rebel; traitor; (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary; (slang) dissident (used self-referentially, esp. in pro-democracy circles)
• 国贼guó zéitraitor to the nation
• 奸贼jiān zéia traitor; a treacherous bandit

贼 in a sentence

• 想从贼身上捞点儿什么是很难的

  xiǎng cóng zéi shēn shàng lāo diǎn ér shén me shì hěn nán de

  It's hard to steal from a thief.

• 抓贼啊！

  zhuā zéi a ！

  Grab the thief!