wan2 - Cantonese only

search; find; look for

use; make use of

earn (money)

(verb) 1. find; 2. search; 3. earn (money for living);

to search for a living; to look for work | 漢: 找生活

to look for a job; to seek one's livelihood

just another way to express "make money"

to make a profit

to be unable to find sb after making a big production of it

to be unable to find something even beat the gong; search everywhere but find nothing

find; succeed in finding

to take me for a stupid fool; to rip me off

to earn a living; to look for food

go to bed [華]: 找周公, 去見周公

(v.) to go to sleep.

to make a living; to earn one's keep; to maintain one's livelihood

completely spend what one earns, "living paycheck to paycheck"

spent all one earns instantly (spoken)

meal found, meal eaten

living from hand to mouth

僅足糊口

living from hand to mouth; making just enough money for food

to search frantically; to look high and low for

this is no laughing matter; don't joke around (often used to dismiss a suggestion)

if you want to joke, find sth else

joke about something else (spoken)

job hunt

(verb) to find a job; to search for a job

找位子

find a seat

to find a seat (or a table if at a restaurant)

to go looking for trouble

money that's easy come easy go

to talk just for the sake of talking; to give a feeble excuse for something [colloquial]

describe a situation where it is impossible to find someone to help [colloquial]

to make a fast buck [colloquial]

describes a shop or a restaurant which is doomed to fail as a result of not getting enough customers [colloquial]

to look for a fool

to cheat; to con; to trick; to defraud; take sb for a ride; seek undue advantage; try to gain sth at the expense of others

(v.) to take advantage of someone; to con / cheat someone; (adj.) to take someone for a fool (to describe a failed attempt to con someone)

looking for a job (Lit. search for something to do)

seeking a job; to do for something to do

find one other day

改天

another day; some other day; find another day; on another day [colloquial]

struggling to make ends meet

verb; metaphor for not enough income to maintain daily expense