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觅

mì

HSK 6 Character Traditional 覓

What 觅 means

1. literaryto seek
2. to find

Other readings

觅 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• mìold variant of {觅|mì}

Example sentences

• 蝙蝠在夜中觅食 。
  Bats hunt at night.
• 蝉破土而出后，会蜕皮，等待身体干燥变硬，然后飞到树顶觅食和寻找配偶，它们通过发出响亮的蝉鸣来寻找配偶。
  Once out of the ground, the cicadas molt and wait for their bodies to dry and harden, then they fly to the tops of trees where they feed and look for a mate, which they do by making a loud buzz.
• 翻译其实是一件吃力不讨好的事，因为一种语言在另一种语言中的对应物藏在往往隐藏在深不可测之处，翻译者需要百般寻觅，而且，挑剔的读者很难糊弄。
  Fānyì qíshí shì yī jiàn chīlìbùtǎohǎo de shì, yīnwèi yīzhǒng yǔyán zài lìngyī zhǒng yǔyán zhōng de duìyìng wù cáng zài wǎngwǎng yǐncáng zài shēnbùkěcè zhī chǔ, fānyìzhě xūyào bǎibān xúnmì, érqiě, tiāoti de dúzhě hěn nán hùnong.
  In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.

Words starting with 觅

• 觅食mì shíto forage; to hunt for food; to scavenge
• 觅取mì qǔto seek; to seek out
• 觅句mì jùto search for the right word (of poet)
• 觅食行为mì shí xíng wéiforaging

Words containing 觅

• 寻觅xún mìto look for
• 另觅新欢lìng mì xīn huānto seek happiness elsewhere (euphemism for extramarital sex); a bit on the side
• 闭门觅句bì mén mì jùlit. lock the door and search for the right word (idiom)…
• 踏破铁鞋无觅处，得来全不费工夫tà pò tiě xié wú mì chù , dé lái quán bù fèi gōng futo travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
• 骑驴觅驴qí lǘ mì lǘsee 骑驴找驴

Characters built on 见

These share the phonetic component 见 (jiàn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at
• 觊jìto covet; to long for
• 觋xíwizard
• 觌díface to face

Characters that look like 觅

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 克kèto be able to; to subdue; to restrain
• 览lǎnto look at; to view; to read
• 呈chéngto present to a superior; memorial; petition
• 炎yánflame; inflammation; -itis
• 昊hàovast and limitless; the vast sky
• 苋xiànamaranth (genus Amaranthus); Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor)…

Sounds the same

Read mì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 密dense; close; thick; intimate; close; (bound form) secret; confidential
• 秘secret; secretary
• 蜜honey
• 泌(bound form) to secrete
• 幂(math) power; exponent; to cover with a cloth; cloth cover; veil
• 宓still; silent
• 谧(literary) quiet; peaceful; tranquil
• 嘧(phonetic) as in pyrimidine
• 糸fine silk; Kangxi radical 120
• 汨name of a river, the southern tributary of Miluo river 汨罗江
• 冖"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 军
• 蓂used in 菥蓂