窃
qiè HSK7

secretly

窃 竊 qiè
to steal verbnoun
to steal; to pilfer
secretly verb
(bound form) secretly; furtively; in private; without others knowing
thief noun
(bound form) a person who steals; a thief
I
(literary) a humble way to refer to oneself, often used before words meaning "think" or "heard" to express one's opinion or knowledge respectfully
to usurp
to illegitimately occupy or seize (power, a position, etc.)

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,103rd most common 31.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,555th most common 39.3 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.30 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
6.70 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
竊
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7A83

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