qiè
secretly
Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 切 represents the sound. Simplified form of 竊.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.8807% of movies
1556th most common character in movies
2103rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7A83 |
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