賊
zéi HSK7

thief

贼 賊 zéi
thief noun
thief; robber; person who steals

一个贼来偷驴。

yī​ge zéi lái tōu lǘ.

A thief came to steal the donkey.

你从不会邀请一个贼到你的家里。

nǐ cóng bù​huì yāo​qǐng yī​ge zéi dào nǐ de jiā​lǐ.

You would never invite a thief into your house.

traitor
(bound form) enemy of the state; traitor; rebel
sly
wily; devious; deceitful; shifty
extremely
(colloquial) extremely; very; used for emphasis before an adjective

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,001st most common 36.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,903rd most common 22.7 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.2 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
25.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
贼
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8CCA

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