贼 zéi▶ ขโมย

Stroke order

贼 is written in 10 strokes.

• 贼

Senses

1. thief; robber
2. (bound form) traitor; subversive
3. (bound form) evil; wicked
4. sly; shifty; devious
5. (literary) to harm; to injure
6. (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)

Related words

• 责怪ตำหนิ, โทษ
• 增添เพิ่ม

贼 is pronounced zéi and means “ขโมย”. HSK 6 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 贼 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.