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  *賊* | 賊* | *賊
thief; robber / (bound form) traitor; subversive / (bound form) evil; wicked / sly; shifty; devious / (literary) to harm; to injure / (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)
HSK 7-9
traitor
habitual thief
robber
traitor to the nation
thief
(insult) brigand / swindler
lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
cat burglar / burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls / intruding enemy airman / air marauder
insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people
renegade / traitor and bandit
brigand
horse thief / (old) group of horse-mounted bandits
renegade / traitor
pirate
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)
cuttlefish
confirmed thief
(dialect) sparrow
squid
to catch a thief
usurper
rapist
vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
(dialect) stingy / miserly / crafty / cunning
to be a thief
(imperial China) rebel; traitor / (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary / (slang) dissident (used self-referentially, esp. in pro-democracy circles)
a traitor / a treacherous bandit
(coll.) to be burglarized


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