竊 — Chinese character
竊
qiè
to steal; thief; secret, stealthy
- 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
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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