to steal / secretly / (humble) I

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is stealing (窃) the cave paintings (穴) in the elevator's bathroom (e4) by cutting (切) them off the wall.

竊 character breakdown

surname Bu
(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
trample

= + : Robinson Crusoe spent the whole day following a map around in the outhouse's kitchen, expecting to find an invaluable treasure. Instead he just found a fake nose, and infuriated, he tramples on this damned map.
cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

= + : Xu Xian presents his newest piece of art: Cave paintings painted on a gigantic eight-ball. Somehow he managed to set it up inside the elevators entrance. For his great artistic achievement, he gained a honorary doctor, and proudly wears his hard earned graduation cap.
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]
old variant of 辨[bian4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a sampling tool. Brunhilde (bi) wants to distinguish a huge banana (丿) from a sack of rice (米) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), so she sticks her sampling tool (釆) into each of them and takes a small sample.

Characters with 竊 as component

竊 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 竊

to steal / to pilfer
to lose by theft / to have one's property stolen
to steal / to seize
to plunder / to plagiarize
to snigger / to titter
to steal / to pick pockets / to frisk
habitual thief
to usurp / to steal
lit. stolen scent, pilfered jade (idiom); philandering / secret illicit sex
to be secretly delighted
steal the whole country and they make you a prince, steal a hook and they hang you (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])
suspected thief (Tw)
to usurp / to claim unjustly / to expropriate
to usurp authority / to hold power improperly
theft / to steal
privately / secretly / unobtrusively
burglary / house-breaking

Sentences with 竊

竊 currently does not appear in any sentence.