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小偷

xiǎo tōu

HSK 5 2-character word

What 小偷 means

1. thief

The characters in 小偷

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 偷tōuto steal; to pilfer; to snatch

Example sentences

• 小偷跑了。
  The thief ran away.
• 注意小偷。
  Beware of thieves.
• 这是一个小偷。
  He is a thief.
• 没人叫你小偷。
  No one is calling you a thief.
• 我们抓住了小偷。
  We captured the thief.
• 拖延是时间小偷。
  Procrastination is the thief of time.

Words starting with 小偷

• 小偷儿xiǎo tōu rerhua form of 小偷
• 小偷小摸xiǎo tōu xiǎo mōto engage in petty theft

Where 小偷 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Throwing, Consuming & Disappearing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiǎo tōu correctly.
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