Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
cave
Parts:
Variants:
stealth, steal, secret, private, hushed
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1871 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 窃用 【セツヨウ】 using without permission, using information obtained in the course of one's duties
  • 剽窃 【ヒョウセツ】 plagiarism
  • 鼠窃 【ソセツ】 sneak-thief

Kun reading compounds

  • 密か 【ひそか】 secret, private, surreptitious

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qie4
Korean:
jeol

Spanish

  • sigilo
  • cautela
  • robo
  • robar

Portuguese

  • discrição
  • roubar
  • segredo
  • particular
  • aquietar

French

  • cambrioler
  • secret
  • privé
  • discret
  • à voix basse
1488 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1974 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3320 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1641 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1596 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1717 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1834 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1673 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1454 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2801 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1441 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1942 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1333 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25453 Morohashi
2253 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4195 New Nelson (John Haig)
1322 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1419 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1288 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
745 2001 Kanji
3m6.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
2-5-4 SKIP code
3072.7 Four corner code
1-32-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a83 Unicode hex code