IDENTITY
盗dàoto steal; thief
HSK 5Top 1250
CORE MEANING
to steal; thief
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to stealHSK5
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 皿dish radical (mǐn)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱次皿
- gives the sound dào (historical)
- vessel (the loot)
USAGE
Common words
盗窃dàoqièto steal
强盗qiángdàorobber
Graded examples
博物馆的文物被盗了。Bówùguǎn de wénwù bèi dào le.HSK6
The museum’s relics were stolen.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 资
LEARNING
Memory aid
Greed (次) for the vessel (皿) — stealing. (From 盜.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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