找
zhǎo
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To search for a person or thing, hoping to find it. 找工作 is 'job-hunting', and with 到 after it the search succeeds: 找到了 'found it'. With a person it means going to see them: 有事找我 'come to me if you need anything'. In a shop, 找钱 is giving a customer their change.
Tìm, tìm kiếm người hay vật. 找工作 là “tìm việc”, thêm 到 phía sau là đã tìm được: 找到了 (tìm thấy rồi). Đi với người thì là đến gặp: 有事找我 (có việc gì cứ tìm tôi). Ở cửa hàng, 找钱 là “trả lại tiền thừa”.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “找” mean?
To search for a person or thing, hoping to find it. 找工作 is 'job-hunting', and with 到 after it the search succeeds: 找到了 'found it'. With a person it means going to see them: 有事找我 'come to me if you need anything'. In a shop, 找钱 is giving a customer their change.
Is “找” formal or informal?
找 is generally neutral.