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)
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robber
pirate ship / fig. venture of dubious merit / criminal gang / reactionary faction
thief
cuttlefish
cat burglar / burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls / intruding enemy airman / air marauder
traitor
horse thief / (old) group of horse-mounted bandits
bright / shiny / dazzling / glaring
lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
evil intentions
completely / utterly (dialect)
see 賊眉鼠眼|贼眉鼠眼[]
shifty-eyed / crafty-looking (idiom)
shifty gaze / furtive glance
(derog.) Buddhist monk
thieves' lair
lit. to behave like a thief / furtive / underhand
lit. to board a pirate ship (idiom) / fig. to associate with criminals
much worse than having something stolen is when a thief has you in his sights (idiom)
(bird species of China) pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
rebels and traitors (idiom) / general term for scoundrel
to be a thief
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom) / to have sth on one's conscience
see 勝者王侯敗者寇|胜者王侯败者寇[]
(imperial China) rebel / traitor / (post-1949) enemy of the state / counter-revolutionary / (slang) dissident (used self-referentially, esp. in pro-democracy circles)
renegade / traitor
vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
traitor to the nation
a traitor / a treacherous bandit
(lit.) in the presence of a monk, insult another monk, calling him a bald-headed bandit (saying) / (fig.) to insult indirectly / to criticize obliquely
brigand
strikebreaker / scab / traitor to the working class
habitual thief
to catch a thief
rapist
(idiom) to defeat the enemy by capturing their leader
squid
thief
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom) / traitorous dictator
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27