Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- mì
English
- seek
- (literary) to seek
- search
- to find
- to look for; to hunt for
粵語
- 認定一個目標，去睇下嗰樣嘢喺邊度
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 覓
- 尋覓cam4 mik6
to look for
- 覓食mik6 sik6
to forage
- 覓取mik6 ceoi2
to seek
- 覓句mik6 geoi3
to search for the right word (of poet)
- 另覓ling6 mik6
- 覓食行為mik6 sik6 hang4 wai4
foraging
- 閉門覓句bai3 mun4 mik6 geoi3
lit. lock the door and search for the right word (idiom); fig. the serious hard work of writing
- 另覓新歡ling6 mik6 san1 fun1
to seek happiness elsewhere (euphemism for extramarital sex)
- 騎驢覓驢ke4 leoi4 mik6 leoi4
see 騎驢找驢|骑驴找驴[qi2 lu:2 zhao3 lu:2]
- 踏破鐵鞋無覓處daap6 po3 tit3 haai4 mou4 mik6 cyu3
to describe something that is nowhere to be found even after painstakingly exhausting all of one's energy and effort to look for it