(zhǎo) - to look for, to seek, to find in Mandarin
zhǎoTraditional: 找
HSK 1
#98 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
to look for, to seek, to find
Word origin
找 (zhǎo) 'to look for' is written with the 扌 (shǒu, 'hand') radical beside 戈 (gē, 'dagger-axe'). The hand radical conveys the action of searching by hand; the precise historical formation is not firmly settled.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 扌 (shǒu, 'hand' radical) + 戈 (gē, component)
Other proposed origins
- 找 is sometimes explained as a graphic variant arising from 戋; its exact original composition is debated, so this analysis is conservative. (扌 hand + 戈)
Stroke order
找
Examples
？
What are you looking for?
！
I found a job!
。
He cannot find his keys.
镜。
Mum is looking for her glasses.
。
I am going to find the teacher and ask a question.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 找.
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