The Chinese word 失窃 (shīqiè), meaning "to be stolen" or "to suffer a theft", is a compound formed through a verb-complement or resultative construction. It combines the character 失 (shī), which means "to lose" or "to suffer a loss", with the character 窃 (qiè), meaning "to steal" or "theft". In this semantic relationship, 窃 specifies the nature or cause of the loss, so the compound literally interprets as "to lose by theft" or "to suffer the loss of stealing", effectively creating a single lexical unit that denotes the event of having something stolen.