偷 (tōu)
to steal/secretly
How 偷 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 偷
- Simplified
- 偷 (unchanged)
Common words using 偷
- 偷偷 tōutōu
- stealthily; secretly; covertly
- 偷吃 tōuchī
- to eat on the sly; to pilfer food; to be unfaithful
- 偷懶 tōulǎn
- to goof off; to be lazy
- 偷拍 tōupāi
- to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge
- 偷笑 tōuxiào
- to laugh up one's sleeve
- 小偷 xiǎotōu
- thief
- 偷偷摸摸 tōutōumōmō
- surreptitious; sneaky
- 偷去 tōuqù
- to steal; to make off with; stolen
- 偷取 tōuqǔ
- to steal; to abstract; to appropriate
- 偷安 tōuān
- to shirk responsibility; thoughtless pleasure-seeking
- 偷工 tōugōng
- to skimp on the job; to avoid work
- 偷工減料 tōugōngjiǎnliào
- to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom); jerry-building; sloppy work
偷 in a sentence
有人偷了我的錢包。
Yǒurén tōu le wǒ de qiánbāo.
“Someone stole my wallet.”
How common is 偷?
偷 is the 1,282nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.7% of all running text.
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