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  *找* | 找* | *找
to try to find / to look for / to call on sb / to find / to seek / to return / to give change
HSK 1
to find
HSK 1
to find / to search out
HSK 2
to seek; to look for
HSK 4
to search for / to look up
HSK 7-9
variant of 找茬
"keep the change" (restaurant expression)
to suffer as a consequence of one's own actions / you asked for it / to bring it on oneself (sth unpleasant)
to retrieve
to look for / to seek / to find fault
to level (ground) / to make level
to pick fault with / to spot the differences / to nitpick / to pick a quarrel / to find complaint with
to give change (after a cash transaction) / the change (money) given back
to give change / to seek funding / (dialect) to make money; to earn a living
change (from money paid)
to seek a marriage partner / looking for a mate
to look for employment / to pick a quarrel
to find
can't find
to search everywhere / to search high and low / to comb
to look for a pretext
(coll.) to look for trouble
to find (sth one has been looking for)
to bring trouble on oneself
to make uniform / to even up / to make good a deficiency
to ask for trouble / to bring misfortune on oneself
to ask for trouble / to invite difficulties
to look for trouble
to look for a pretext
to be looking for one's teeth all over the floor / (fig.) to get beaten up badly / to beat the crap out of (sb)
to come to sb's door / to call on sb
to be unable to find
to look for blemishes / to find fault / nitpicking
(idiom) (coll.) to continue in an unsatisfactory job (or romantic relationship etc) while actively looking for a better one
to look for an opportunity
to pick a quarrel / to find fault / nitpicking
to spend money on sth that turns out to be unsatisfactory or even disastrous
to be confused and disoriented
to find fault
to find an excuse / to look for a pretext
to court death; to take a big risk
to compensate / to make up / to complement / to add
(dialect) to give change
to seek help from social connections
to look for a job
(idiom) (coll.) to continue in an unsatisfactory job (or romantic relationship etc) while actively looking for a better one
lit. to search for the mule while riding on it (idiom) / fig. to look for what one already has


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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