竊 — Chinese character

Pinyin

qiè

Radical

116 ⽳ (Cave)

Strokes

22

Components

穴 米 禼

Formation

ideographic — Termites 禼 taking grain 米 to their nest 穴

Simplified

窃

Japanese

竊 as a kanji

竊 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 24

• Analects 7.1
• Analects 12.18
• Analects 15.13
• Mencius 2A.2
• Mencius 2B.7
• Mencius 4B.21
• Mencius 7A.35
• Mencius 7B.30

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