Chinese Character Wiki
偷

tōu

to steal

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 俞 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

俞 sound component

俞  Sound component

yú, shù

  

surname

Evolution

偷 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
偷 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
偷 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
偷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

偷  

tōu

to steal, burglar, thief; to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily

Most common words with 偷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

偷

to steal

偷偷

stealthily

小偷

thief

偷拍

to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge

偷窃

to steal

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ˤo

thuw

tōu

steal


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 55.5502% of movies

616th most common character in movies

1284th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5077


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