Meaning
to try to find; to look for; to call on (sb); to find; to seek; to return
Chinese: 寻找、找回或联系。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “zhao” becomes a different word in each tone. 找 is the 3rd tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.
Common Words
- 找到zhǎo dàoto find
- 找出zhǎo chūto find; to search out
- 寻找xún zhǎoto seek; to look for
- 查找chá zhǎoto search for; to look up
- 找着zhǎo zháoto find
Example Sentence
我在找我的钥匙。Wǒ zài zhǎo wǒ de yào shi.I am looking for my keys.
我WǒI在zàiat找zhǎoto try to find我wǒI的deof钥匙yào shikey。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
The hand radical 扌 plus 戈 (a weapon): to search with the hand. It means ‘to look for / seek’.
A way to remember it
A hand (扌) reaching past a 戈 — searching.
Easy to confuse with
- 我‘I / me’: almost identical, but 我 has one extra stroke on the left instead of a plain hand radical.