Chinese symbol for “looting”
抢劫
qiǎng jié
Traditional: 搶劫
to rob; looting
The closest CC-CEDICT match for looting is 抢劫 (qiǎng jié), defined as: to rob; looting.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “looting”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 抢劫.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抢救 (搶救) | qiǎng jiù | to rescue |
| 抢夺 (搶奪) | qiǎng duó | to plunder; to pillage |
| 抢先 (搶先) | qiǎng xiān | to rush (to do sth urgent); to try to be the first |
| 抢走 (搶走) | qiǎng zǒu | to snatch (esp related to a robbery) |
| 抢购 (搶購) | qiǎng gòu | to buy frenetically; to snap up (bargains, dwindling supplies etc) |
| 劫持 | jié chí | to kidnap; to hijack |
| 洗劫 | xǐ jié | to loot; to ransack; to pillage |
| 浩劫 | hào jié | calamity; catastrophe |
See also: Japanese symbol for “looting”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.