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Trad. 賊
- 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)
Trad. 賊船
- pirate ship
- fig. venture of dubious merit
- criminal gang
- reactionary faction
Trad. 飛賊
- cat burglar
- burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls
- intruding enemy airman
- air marauder
Trad. 反賊
- (imperial China) rebel; traitor
- (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary
- (slang) dissident (used self-referentially, esp. in pro-democracy circles)
Trad. 蟊賊
- insect that damages cereal crop seedlings
- (lit. and fig.) vermin
- a person harmful to the country and the people
Trad. 上賊船
- lit. to board a pirate ship (idiom)
- fig. to associate with criminals
Trad. 中賊鷗
- (bird species of China) pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
Trad. 獨夫民賊
- tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
Trad. 麥氏賊鷗
- (bird species of China) South Polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
Trad. 賊喊捉賊
- 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
Trad. 賊眉賊眼
- see 賊眉鼠眼|贼眉鼠眼[zei2 mei2 shu3 yan3]
Trad. 賊眉鼠眼
- shifty-eyed
- crafty-looking (idiom)
Trad. 賊頭賊腦
- lit. to behave like a thief
- furtive
- underhand
Trad. 吸血烏賊
- vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
Trad. 長尾賊鷗
- (bird species of China) long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
Trad. 認賊作父
- lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal
- to sell oneself to the enemy
Trad. 民賊獨夫
- tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
Trad. 亂臣賊子
- rebels and traitors (idiom)
- general term for scoundrel
Trad. 關門捉賊
- to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)
Trad. 短尾賊鷗
- (bird species of China) parasitic jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
Trad. 做賊心虛
- to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
Trad. 擒賊擒王
- (idiom) to defeat the enemy by capturing their leader
Trad. 誤上賊船
- lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship
- to embark on a hopeless adventure
Trad. 漢賊不兩立
- lit. Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] and Cao Wei 曹魏[Cao2 Wei4] cannot coexist (idiom)
- fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky
- (former KMT slogan against CCP) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist"
Trad. 對著和尚罵賊禿
- lit. in the presence of a monk, insult another monk, calling him a bald-headed bandit (saying)
- fig. to insult indirectly; to criticize obliquely
Trad. 勝者王侯敗者賊
- see 勝者王侯敗者寇|胜者王侯败者寇[sheng4 zhe3 wang2 hou2 bai4 zhe3 kou4]
Trad. 不怕賊偷就怕賊惦記
- much worse than having something stolen is when a thief has you in his sights (idiom)