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Kanji Detail for 賊 - "thief, rebel, bandit"
賊
- Meaning
賊 means "thief, rebel, bandit."
Thief - One who steals.
Rebel - One who opposes authority.
Bandit - A robber or outlaw.
Harm - To injure or damage.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
burglar; rebel; traitor; robber
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
thief, traitor
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
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)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
thief, traitor; cunning, sly
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To harm. "Mencius" says "One who harms benevolence is called a thief. One who harms righteousness is called a destroyer." All killing and harming people is called 賊. Such as 陰賊 (secretly harm), 戕賊 (injure). Therefore cursing someone who brings calamity to the people and nation is called 民賊 (enemy of the people), 國賊 (traitor). | One who robs is called 賊. Such as 寇賊 (bandits), 盜賊 (robbers). Today generally, armed robbery is called 盜. Theft is called 賊. | Pests that eat the joints of seedlings are called 賊. Such as 蟊賊 (pests). Appears in "Book of Odes."
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