尋揣
Chinese
| to search; to look for; to seek | estimate; guess; figure estimate; guess; figure; surmise; put into | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (尋揣) | 尋 | 揣 | |
| simp. (寻揣) | 寻 | 揣 | |
| alternative forms | 尋找／寻找 | ||
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sîm-chhēr / sîm-chhē / sîm-chhōe
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîm-chhēr
- Tâi-lô: sîm-tshēr
- IPA (Quanzhou): /sim²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰə⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîm-chhē
- Tâi-lô: sîm-tshē
- Phofsit Daibuun: simzhe
- IPA (Xiamen): /sim²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰe²²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîm-chhōe
- Tâi-lô: sîm-tshuē
- Phofsit Daibuun: simzhoe
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /sim¹³⁻²² t͡sʰue²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
Verb
尋揣
Synonyms
- 尋找 / 寻找 (xúnzhǎo)
- 尋查 / 寻查 (xúnchá)
- 尋索 / 寻索 (xúnsuǒ)
- 尋覓 / 寻觅 (xúnmì)
- 找 (zhǎo)
- 找尋 / 找寻 (zhǎoxún)
- 抄身 (chāoshēn) (to frisk)
- 探尋 / 探寻 (tànxún)
- 探索 (tànsuǒ) (literary, in order to find evidence)
- 搜 (sōu)
- 搜尋 / 搜寻 (sōuxún)
- 搜查 (sōuchá) (in order to find evidence)
- 搜索 (sōusuǒ)
- 搜身 (sōushēn) (to frisk)
- 搵 / 揾 (Cantonese)
- 摸索 (mōsuǒ)
- 查尋 / 查寻 (cháxún)
- 查找 (cházhǎo)
- 檢索 / 检索 (jiǎnsuǒ) (to look up)
- 緝查 / 缉查 (jīchá) (in order to find evidence)
- 追尋 / 追寻 (zhuīxún)
- 追索 (zhuīsuǒ) (literary)
Dialectal synonyms of 找 (“to look for, to seek, to search for”) [map]