Chinese
偷
/tʰoʊ̯⁵⁵/
to steal; to snatch
- Phono-semantic compound 形聲
- HSK 5
- TOCFL 4
- radical 人
- 11 strokes
- 媮
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Origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l̥ʰoː): semantic 亻 + phonetic 俞 (OC *l̥ʰus, *lo).
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Lineage
- meaningChinese人 “man; person; people (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 h)”
- soundChinese俞 “to hollow a tree to make a boat”
Sources
- HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
- 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: 偷