贼賊 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 賊, the traditional character: 贼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 5 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 原来Tom是贼来的。

  Tom turned out to be a thief.

• 想从贼身上捞点儿什么是很难的

  It's hard to steal from a thief.

• 抓贼啊！

  Grab the thief!

• 窃贼是从这扇门进到屋子里的。

  The burglar gained access to the house through this door.

• 警察认为窃贼从地下室窗口进入。

  The police think the burglar entered through a basement window.

• 警方根据现场遗下的证物把贼子找了出来。

  The burglar was traced by one of the things he had left on the scene.

All example sentences with 贼