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盗窃

dào qiè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 盜竊

盗窃 (dào qiè) means "to steal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 盗窃 means

1. to steal

The characters in 盗窃

• 盗dàoto steal; to rob; to plunder
• 窃qièto steal; secretly; (humble) I

Example sentences

• 警察起诉他盗窃。
  Jǐngchá qǐsù tā dàoqiè.
  The police accused him of theft.
• 贝蒂有盗窃前科。
  Bèidì yǒu dàoqiè qiánkē.
  Betty has a previous conviction for theft.
• 汤姆指认了盗窃的职员。
  Tom accused the employee of stealing.
• 我们走开的时候，房子被盗窃了。
  Wǒmen zǒukāi de shíhou, fángzi bèi dàoqiè le.
  Our house was robbed while we were away.
• 一个入室盗窃者趁我去旅游的时候闯入了我家。
  Yī gè rù shì dàoqiè zhě chèn wǒ qù lǚyóu de shíhou chuǎngrù le wǒ jiā.
  A burglar broke into my house while I was away on a trip.
• 那个时候，我们只能听到关于盗窃、杀人、以及饿死了人的故事。
  Nàge shíhou, wǒmen zhǐ néng tīng dào guānyú dàoqiè, shārén, yǐjí èsǐ le rén de gùshi.
  During that time, we only heard about thieves, about murders, about men who had died of hunger.

Words containing 盗窃

• 身份盗窃shēn fèn dào qièidentity theft

Where 盗窃 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dǎo–dì (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dào qiè correctly.
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