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The character "找" has a relatively late origin in the history of Chinese writing, appearing as a distinct form only around the Song dynasty. Its structure is a semantic-phonetic compound, combining the hand radical (扌) on the left with the component 戈 on the right, which here primarily provides phonetic similarity rather than meaning. Its original and now obsolete meaning was "to pick up" or "to gather", an action logically connected to the hand, before undergoing a significant shift in semantics. By the Ming and Qing periods, this meaning had become entirely displaced by the now-exclusive modern sense of "to look for" or "to seek", a semantic extension that likely arose from the idea of using one’s hand to actively search through or sift through items to locate something specific. This traditional form is identical to its modern standard written form.
Example Sentences Hide
我在找我的手机。
他去图书馆找书。
妈妈在找她的钥匙。
我们需要找一家好餐厅。
如果你找不到路，可以问我。
他花了很长时间才找到那份文件。
为了找到真相，记者们进行了深入调查。
在浩瀚的网络信息中，找到可靠的数据并不容易。