(找) look for; search; seek 另见 see also xún。 ◆寻短见 commit suicide; take one's own life; 寻开心 [方] make fun of; joke; 寻死 try to commit suicide; attempt suicide; commit suicide; 寻死觅活 repeatedly attempt suicide (in order to threaten); threaten to kill oneself; threaten sb. with death; try to commit suicide; seek one's own death; want to end one's own life; 寻思 think sth. over; consider; 寻思一计 cudgel one's brains for a ruse (to ...)
寻(尋);[、𡬶、、]xún
Ⅰ (找) look for; search; seek: ~ 物 look for sth. lost; 自 ~ 烦恼 bring trouble on oneself; 他说他在找 ~ 真理。 He said he was searching after truth. Ⅱ (古代长度单位, 八尺叫一寻) an ancient measure of length equal to about eight chi Ⅲ (姓氏) a surname: ~ 阳 Xun Yang 另见 see also xín。 ◆寻常 ordinary; usual; common; 寻的 {军} target-seeking; homing; 寻芳踏翠 take a walk across the flowers and grass; 寻访 look for; try to locate; make inquiries about; 寻根 seek roots; in search of things related to one's ancestors; 寻根究底 inquire deeply into; get [probe] to the bottom of (the business); investigate thoroughly; penetrate into (the secret of) origins; get beneath the skin [surface] of things; find by hard and thorough search; make an exhaustive probing into; trace sth. into its source; 寻根索源 inquire into the root of the matter; make a thorough investigation into; probe to the bottom of; 寻骨风 {中药} berba aristolochiae mollissimae; 寻行数墨 only rigidly adhere to words and expressions, without regard to the general meaning of the whole writing; smooth the sentence; 寻花问柳 rove among flowers and willows — visit places [houses] of ill fame; be promiscuous in sex relations; frequent houses of courtesans; go about in the hope of finding girls; go round singsong houses; go to houses of professional gayety; spend one's time with prostitutes; visit [frequent] brothels; 寻欢作乐 pursue pleasure; (have) beer and skittles; go on the spree; indulge in merry-making; kick up one's heels; look for distractions; make merry; merry-making; on the loose; on the tiles; pleasure round [around] (all day long); seek pleasures and make merry; seek the joys of lover's union; 寻彗镜 comet- seeker; comet finder; 寻机 [书] look for an opportunity; 寻来寻去 search high and low; 寻乐 look for distractions; seek amusement; 寻霉素 questionmycin; 寻觅 seek; look for; 寻求 seek; explore; go in quest of; pursue; 寻事 seek a quarrel; stir up trouble; 寻事惹非 make trouble; find fault and make trouble; seek a quarrel; 寻事生非 seek a quarrel; make trouble; 寻索 explore; seek; 寻味 chew sth. over; ruminate; think over; 寻线 hunting; 寻香探艳 seek for fragrance and visit beauties; 寻衅 pick a quarrel; provoke; 寻衅滋事 try to pick a quarrel; seek a quarrel and challenge a fight; pick a quarrel and make trouble; 寻星仪 {天} star finder; star identifier; 寻幽览胜 visit places of scenic beauty; 寻章摘句 select passages and choose phrases; load one's writing with hackneyed phrases without originality; look for quotes (in order to embellish one's writing); seek remarkable passages and cull model sentences; 寻找 seek; look for; search; searching; finding; tracing; location; pathfinding; hunting; 寻踪觅迹 trace out
【析形】会意字。甲骨文、金文字形像两臂拉伸以丈量之形。篆、隶字形讹变,初形不显。 【释义】《说文》:“度人之两臂为寻,八尺也。”指伸开两臂的长度,合古代的八尺。《诗经·閟宫》:“是断是度,是寻是尺。”[寻常]指短距离或小面积。《左传·成公十二年》杜预注:“八尺曰寻,倍寻为常。”引申比喻普通、平常。刘禹锡《乌衣巷》:“旧时王谢堂前燕,飞入寻常百姓家。”“寻”本是人的两臂张开的长度,人两臂张开时,看上去有所期待,故引申为探究、研究、追寻之意。[寻根问底]追求根底,一般指追问一件事的缘由。 【shape analysis】It is the associative character.In Oracle and Bronze Inscriptions it looks like two arms stretching out to measure. 【original meaning】The length of two arms stretching out,that is eight feet.When the two arms open,it looks like looking forward for something,so it also means chasing.