窃竊 in English

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).

Examples

• 一个入室盗窃者趁我去旅游的时候闯入了我家。

  A burglar broke into my house while I was away on a trip.

• 我们走开的时候，房子被盗窃了。

  Our house was robbed while we were away.

• 男孩们窃窃私语，我知道他们准备做些什么。

  The boys were whispering; I knew they were up to something.

• 警察认为窃贼从地下室窗口进入。

  The police think the burglar entered through a basement window.

• 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。

  During that time, we only heard about thieves, about murders, about men who had died of hunger.

• 饥饿促使他偷窃。

  Hunger urged him to steal.

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