HSK 6 · Society

盗窃 dàoqiè “to steal” in Chinese

Traditional 盜竊

What 盗窃 means

  1. to steal
  2. theft

How to say 盗窃

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale盗dào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale窃qiè4th tone, falling

盗窃 in a sentence

  1. 我们走开的时候，房子被盗窃了。

    Wǒmen zǒukāi de shíhou, fángzi bèi dàoqiè le.

    Our house was burgled while we were away.

    Sentence #333311 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 一个入室盗窃者趁我去旅游的时候闯入了我家。

    Yí ge rùshì dàoqièzhě chèn wǒ qù lǚyóu de shíhou chuǎngrù le wǒ jiā.

    A burglar broke into my house while I was away travelling.

    Sentence #346802 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 贝蒂有盗窃前科。

    Bèidì yǒu dàoqiè qiánkē.

    Betty has a prior conviction for theft.

    Sentence #8727925 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 盗窃 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 盗 (dào) with each of its parts in a different colour
盗dàoto steal
  • 次order · cì
  • 皿dish · mǐn
The character 窃 (qiè) with each of its parts in a different colour
窃qièto steal
  • 穴cave · xuéMeaning part
  • 切to cut · qiēSound part

穴 hints at the meaning (cave); 切 (qiē) hints at the sound. Compare it with qiè.

How to write 盗窃

盗 11 strokes · 窃 9 strokes

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盗窃 (dàoqiè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 盗窃 (dàoqiè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 盗窃

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FAQs

盗窃 (dàoqiè) means “to steal” or “theft”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dàoqiè: dào with a 4th tone, then qiè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 盗窃 is written 盜竊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daoqie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 盗窃 from the suggestions. Typing daoqie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
盗窃 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.