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找茬

zhǎochá

to pick fault with

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to pick fault with

02

to spot the differences

03

to nitpick

04

to pick a quarrel

05

to find complaint with

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 找茬 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 找茬 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

你是在找茬吧?nǐ shì zài zhǎo chá ba?

No published English translation for this sentence.

我在居酒屋被一个奇怪的大叔找茬了。wǒ zài jū jiǔ wū bèi yí gè qí guài de dà shū zhǎo chá le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 找茬.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 找茬.

Directly before

  • 大叔找茬1
  • 在找茬1

Directly after

  • 找茬了1
  • 找茬吧1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 找茬

What does 找茬 mean in Chinese?

找茬 (zhǎochá) means to pick fault with.

How do you pronounce 找茬?

找茬 is pronounced zhǎochá.

Is 找茬 an HSK word?

找茬 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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