Entry
关guān门mén捉zhuō贼zéi

  1. to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)

    trad. 關門捉賊

Also written 關門捉賊【guān mén zhuō zéi】

Characters in this word

4
贼
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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)

Pinyin
zéi
Traditional
賊
Strokes
10
Frequency
4535 of 2500
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