偷
tōu HSK5

to steal

偷 tōu
to steal verb
to steal; to pilfer; to snatch something secretly; to commit theft

为什么偷东西是不对的？

wèi​shén​me tōu dōng​xi shì bù​duì de?

Why is stealing wrong?

secretly adverb
secretly; stealthily; doing something behind people's backs without being noticed

我们以前都在办公室里偷牵手。

wǒ​men yǐ​qián dōu zài bàn​gōng​shì li tōu qiān shǒu.

We used to secretly hold hands in the office.

thief noun
a person who steals; a thief
to find time
to squeeze out or find a bit of time or energy in the midst of other tasks
to drift along
to muddle along or seek temporary ease with no regard for the future
mean-spirited
mean; unkind; lacking in generosity or sincerity
to start early
to start or do something ahead of the scheduled or stipulated time

Cross-References

Synonym

Same as

Has erhua variant

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,284th most common 98.2 per million
Movie subtitles
616th most common 226.1 per million appears in 56% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
164.0 per million appears in 37% of films
Written text
41.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5077

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)