(tōu) - steal, secretly, on the sly in Mandarin
tōuTraditional: 偷
HSK 4
#801 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
steal, secretly, on the sly
Word origin
偷 (tōu) means 'to steal, secretly'. It is a phono-semantic compound with the 亻(person) radical for meaning and 俞 (yú) as the phonetic component.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 亻(person radical) + 俞 (yú, phonetic)
Stroke order
偷
Examples
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Someone stole my wallet.
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He left secretly.
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Don't steal things.
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Someone has stolen my bicycle.
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The cat stole the fish off the table.
偷 (tōu) means steal, secretly, on the sly. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
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