找碴

zhǎochá

verb #25,361

Meanings

1 to pick a quarrel
2 to find fault
3 to nitpick
4 to look for trouble

Characters

to look for; to seek

chips; fragments; fault (colloquial)

Examples

他老是找碴，大家都不喜欢他。

Tā lǎo shì zhǎo chá, dàjiā dōu bù xǐhuān tā.

He's always picking quarrels; nobody likes him.

你别找碴了，我已经尽力了。

Nǐ bié zhǎo chá le, wǒ yǐjīng jìn lì le.

Stop finding fault — I've already done my best.

他故意找碴，想让对方难堪。

Tā gùyì zhǎo chá, xiǎng ràng duìfāng nánkān.

He deliberately picked a quarrel, trying to embarrass the other person.

Tips

usage

找碴 is a colloquial variant of 找茬 (zhǎo chá). Both are widely used and mean to deliberately find fault or provoke conflict. 找茬 is more common in written Chinese.

Stroke Order

找 zhǎo

碴 chá