扒窃扒竊 in English

Character breakdown

• 扒 bā to peel
• 窃竊 qiè to steal

How it used to be written

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

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 7 forms

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