The policemen arrested the burglar.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
窃贼
thief
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
thief
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 窃贼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 窃贼 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The police officer arrested the burglar.
The police officers arrested the burglar.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 窃贼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 窃贼.
Directly before
- 了窃贼2
- 一个窃贼1
- 这个窃贼1
- 认为窃贼1
Directly after
- 窃贼闯进1
- 窃贼是从1
- 窃贼从1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 窃贼
What does 窃贼 mean in Chinese?
窃贼 (qièzéi) means thief.
How do you pronounce 窃贼?
窃贼 is pronounced qièzéi.
Is 窃贼 an HSK word?
窃贼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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