找麻烦 zhǎomáfan pick on someone Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 找麻烦 找麻煩 zhǎo//máfan pick on someone verb + noun to deliberately find fault, provoke, or be difficult with someone; to look for trouble 你是在找麻烦吗? nǐ shì zài zhǎo máfan ma? Are you looking for trouble? cause trouble verb + noun to cause inconvenience, extra work, or burden to oneself or others 我没有挑起争斗,我没有欺负其他孩子,我没有找麻烦。 wǒ méiyǒu tiǎo qǐ zhēngdòu, wǒ méiyǒu qīfu qítā háizi, wǒ méiyǒu zhǎo máfan. I didn’t pick fights, I didn’t bully other kids, I didn’t look for trouble. Frequency Movie subtitles 6.35 per million appears in 3% of films Written text 0.960 per million Cross-References Synonym 找事 zhǎoshì找碴 zhǎochá找茬儿 zhǎochár Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
找麻烦 找麻煩 zhǎo//máfan pick on someone verb + noun to deliberately find fault, provoke, or be difficult with someone; to look for trouble 你是在找麻烦吗? nǐ shì zài zhǎo máfan ma? Are you looking for trouble? cause trouble verb + noun to cause inconvenience, extra work, or burden to oneself or others 我没有挑起争斗,我没有欺负其他孩子,我没有找麻烦。 wǒ méiyǒu tiǎo qǐ zhēngdòu, wǒ méiyǒu qīfu qítā háizi, wǒ méiyǒu zhǎo máfan. I didn’t pick fights, I didn’t bully other kids, I didn’t look for trouble. Frequency Movie subtitles 6.35 per million appears in 3% of films Written text 0.960 per million Cross-References Synonym 找事 zhǎoshì找碴 zhǎochá找茬儿 zhǎochár Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)