Wiktionary

竊

See also: 窃
竊 U+7ACA, 竊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7ACA
← 竉
[U+7AC9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 立 →
[U+7ACB]

Translingual edit

Japanese 窃
Simplified 窃
Traditional 竊

Han character edit

竊 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+17, 22 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹木月 (JCHDB), four-corner 30927, composition ⿱穴⿰釆⿳⺊𠔿禸)

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 870, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25713
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1299, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2747, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7ACA

Chinese edit

trad. 竊
simp. 窃
alternative forms
 
𫞺
𫁝 (historical variant)
𥨱 (historical variant)
𥨵 (corrupted form)
𢿝 (ancient form)
𫞺
𫁝 (historical variant)
𥨱 (historical variant)
𥨵 (corrupted form)
𢿝 (ancient form)
𥩓

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 竊
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
 

The current form likely derives from a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰleːd): semantic 宀 + phonetic 䊪／𥸯 (OC *m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd), as attested in the Western Han period. 宀 is later replaced with 穴, and 萬 corrupts into 廿 and 禼. Based on the corrupted form, Shuowen erroneously interprets this character as a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰleːd): semantic 穴 (“cave; hole”) + semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 廿 (OC *zid) + phonetic 禼 (OC *sed). In the current form, 廿 is omitted and 米 is replaced with 釆.

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • chhiat - literary;
  • chhiap - vernacular (俗).
Note:
  • ciab4 - Chaozhou;
  • ciag4 - Shantou.
Rime
Character 竊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 先 (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 千結切
Baxter tshet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰet̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰet̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰɛt̚/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰet̚/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰiet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qie
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cit3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 竊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qiè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshet ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[tsʰ]ˁet/
English steal

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 竊
Reading # 1/1
No. 10472
Phonetic
component 		竊
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰleːd/

Definitions edit

竊

  1. to steal
  2. thief
  3. to acquire illegitimately; to usurp
  4. secretly; stealthily
  5. (literary, humble) personally
    竊以為……／窃以为……  ―  qiè yǐwèi......  ―  I personally think that...

Synonyms edit

  • (to steal):

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai

窃

Kyūjitai

竊

Kanji edit

竊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 窃)

  1. to steal (“nusumu” reading)
  2. secret; hushed, quietly (“hisoka” reading)

Readings edit

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 竊 (MC tshet).

Historical readings

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

竊 (eumhun 훔칠 절 (humchil jeol))

  1. Hanja form? of 절 (“to steal”).

Compounds edit

Compounds

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

竊: Hán Nôm readings: thiết

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