找事

zhǎoshì
  1. to look for employment
  2. to pick a quarrel

CEDICT

  1. to look for trouble
  2. to look for work; to seek employment
  3. to pick a quarrel

Wiktionary

  1. 找工作。
  2. 找藉口挑剔別人，製造事端。如：「他一天到晚找事，一副唯恐天下不亂的樣子。」也作「找麻煩」、「找碴兒」。

重編國語辭典

  1. 找工作，求職
  2. 挑釁，尋釁
  3. 自找麻煩

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 找 zhǎo
  1. to try to find
  2. to look for
  3. to call on sb
  4. to find
  5. to seek
  6. to return
  7. to give change
2 事 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: 件, 樁, 回

Related entries

尋釁 xúnxìn
  1. to pick a quarrel
  2. to start a fight
找碴兒 zhǎochár
  1. to pick a quarrel
  2. to find fault
  3. nitpicking
找茬 zhǎochá
  1. to pick fault with
  2. to spot the differences
  3. to nitpick
  4. to pick a quarrel
  5. to find complaint with