竊
qiè

secretly

窃 (竊) qiè
I (humble) adverb
a humble term used to refer to oneself, often when expressing a personal opinion

窃以为此计不可行。

qiè yǐ​wéi cǐ jì bù kě​xíng.

In my humble opinion, this plan is not feasible.

secretly verb
secretly, stealthily, or privately

他在一旁窃喜。

tā zài yī​páng qiè​xǐ.

He was secretly delighted.

steal verb
to steal or commit theft

那名惯犯因为在街头行窃被抓了个正着。

nà míng guàn​fàn yīn​wèi zài jiē​tóu xíng​qiè bèi zhuā le gè zhèng​zháo.

The habitual offender was caught red-handed stealing on the street.

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
Simplified
窃
Strokes
22
Unicode
U+7ACA

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