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窃 — Stealth

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary school#1871 most used
stealth, steal, secret, private, hushed
On’yomiセツ (setsu)
Kun’yomiぬす (nusumu)
Kun’yomiひそ (hisoka)

Stroke order (9 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 窃

WordReadingMeaning
窃盗せっとう
settou
theft; stealing; larceny

Study notes

窃 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 9 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1871 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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