偷
tōu HSK5

to steal

偷 tōu
steal verb
to take someone else's property without permission

他偷了我的钱包。

tā tōu le wǒ de qián​bāo.

He stole my wallet.

stealthily verb
doing something in a secret or surreptitious manner

他偷着看了一眼我的手机。

tā tōu zhe kàn le yī yǎn wǒ de shǒu​jī.

He took a stealthy glance at my phone.

thief punctuation
a person who steals

那个小偷在公交车上偷钱包时，被勇敢的乘客当场抓获。

nà​ge xiǎo​tōu zài gōng​jiāo​chē shàng tōu qián​bāo shí, bèi yǒng​gǎn de chéng​kè dāng​chǎng zhuā​huò.

The thief was caught on the spot by brave passengers while stealing a wallet on the bus.

Cross-References

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)