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贼

zéi

HSK 6 Character Traditional 賊

What 贼 means

1. thief; robber
2. bound formtraitor; subversive
3. bound formevil; wicked
4. sly; shifty; devious
5. literaryto harm; to injure
6. colloquialextremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)

Example sentences

• 抓贼啊！
  Zhuāzéi ā!
  Grab the thief!
• 警官逮捕了窃贼。
  Jǐngguān dàibǔ le qièzéi.
  The police officer arrested the burglar.
• 警察逮捕了窃贼。
  The policemen arrested the burglar.
• 警察拘捕了这个窃贼。
  Jǐngchá jūbǔ le zhège qièzéi.
  The police officers arrested the burglar.
• 原来Tom是贼来的。
  Tom turned out to be a thief.
• 一个窃贼闯进了他的房子。
  Yī gè qièzéi chuǎngjìn le tā de fángzi.
  A burglar broke into his house.

Words starting with 贼

• 贼船zéi chuánpirate ship; fig. venture of dubious merit; criminal gang
• 贼亮zéi liàngbright; shiny; dazzling
• 贼心zéi xīnevil intentions
• 贼死zéi sǐcompletely; utterly (dialect)
• 贼眼zéi yǎnshifty gaze; furtive glance
• 贼窝zéi wōthieves' lair
• 贼喊捉贼zéi hǎn zhuō zéilit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom); fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to…
• 贼眉鼠眼zéi méi shǔ yǎnshifty-eyed; crafty-looking (idiom)
• 贼头贼脑zéi tóu zéi nǎolit. to behave like a thief; furtive; underhand
• 贼秃zéi tū(derog.) Buddhist monk
• 贼眉贼眼zéi méi zéi yǎnsee 贼眉鼠眼

Words containing 贼

• 盗贼dào zéirobber
• 窃贼qiè zéithief
• 卖国贼mài guó zéitraitor
• 抓贼zhuā zéito catch a thief
• 作贼zuò zéito be a thief
• 反贼fǎn zéi(imperial China) rebel; traitor; (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary…
• 叛贼pàn zéirenegade; traitor
• 国贼guó zéitraitor to the nation
• 奸贼jiān zéia traitor; a treacherous bandit
• 山贼shān zéibrigand
• 工贼gōng zéistrikebreaker; scab; traitor to the working class
• 惯贼guàn zéihabitual thief
• 毛贼máo zéithief
• 海贼hǎi zéipirate
• 乌贼wū zéicuttlefish
• 狗贼gǒu zéi(insult) brigand; swindler
• 积贼jī zéiconfirmed thief
• 逆贼nì zéirenegade; traitor and bandit
• 鸡贼jī zéi(dialect) stingy; miserly; crafty
• 飞贼fēi zéicat burglar; burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls; intruding enemy airman
• 马贼mǎ zéihorse thief; (old) group of horse-mounted bandits
• 闹贼nào zéi(colloquial) to be burglarized
• 上贼船shàng zéi chuánlit. to board a pirate ship (idiom); fig. to associate with criminals
• 采花贼cǎi huā zéirapist

Characters that look like 贼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 械xièappliance; tool; weapon
• 脏zāngdirty; filthy; to get (sth) dirty
• 绒róngvelvet; woolen
• 眺tiàoto gaze into the distance
• 赃zāngstolen goods; loot; spoils
• 眦zì(anatomy) corner of the eye; canthus

Sounds the same

Read zéi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鲗cuttlefish
• 戝old variant of 贼