觅 (mì): (literary) to seek, to find
觅 (mì) is a Chinese character meaning “(literary) to seek.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 爫 (structural) and 见 (structural). It ranks #2649 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 觅 to search for something with eyes 见 and hands 爫. Its radical form 见 (see) appears in many related characters such as 见 (jiàn, to see), 观 (guān, to look at), 规 (guī, compass).
Definitions
- (literary) to seek
- to find
Etymology & Origin
ideographicTo search for something with eyes 见 and hands 爫
Decomposition: ⿱爫见 (layout: top-bottom)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寻觅verb | xún mì | to look for |
| 觅食verb | mì shí | to forage |
| 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 fu | to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily |
| 觅食行为 | mì shí xíng wéi | foraging |
| 另觅新欢 | lìng mì xīn huān | to seek happiness elsewhere (euphemism for extramarital sex) |
| 闭门觅句 | bì mén mì jù | lit. lock the door and search for the right word (idiom) |
| 觅取 | mì qǔ | to seek |
| 觅句 | mì jù | to search for the right word (of poet) |
| 骑驴觅驴 | qí lǘ mì lǘ | see 騎驢找驢|骑驴找驴 |
觅 appears in 9 compound words: 44 as the first character, 11 as the last, and 44 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 觅 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
写好觅字需要掌握正确的笔画顺序。
xiě hǎo mì zì xū yāo zhǎng wò zhēng què de bǐ huà shùn xù .
To write the character "觅" correctly, you need to master the proper stroke order.
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蝙蝠在夜中觅食 。
Biānfú zài yè zhōng mìshí.
Bats hunt at night.
Character Family
见 Radical Family — Characters sharing the see radical
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