<p>I have found it!<br>
It is a grammatical construct called "resultive complement".<br>
见 is the resultive complement for 寻. 寻 only means search and
寻 见 means "successful search" => "find".  </p>

<p><a href="http://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandarin/result-complement-detail-explanation" rel="nofollow">http://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandarin/result-complement-detail-explanation</a></p>

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2014-03-17T22:37:10.193Z
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Wolfgang Adamec
<p>That is not a normal to express the meaning of "seek and you will find" at least not in simplified chinese. In traditional, might be. I think it should be "xun zhao, ni jiang hui zhao dao"~</p>

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2014-03-18T19:05:08.283Z
Simplified Chinese is a type of script, not a variety of the language.
deutschZuid
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2014-03-18T02:53:05.903Z
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r0ng
<p>Matthew 7:7 马太福音 7:7</p>

<p>Chinese Union Version 和合本 (Old version)</p>

<p>= 寻找，就寻见</p>

<p>Contemporary Chinese Translation 现代中文译本 (New version)</p>

<p>= 寻找，就找到</p>

<p>You should understand that Chinese language do not have rigid grammar structure like English. That's why it is very easy to make a poem in Chinese with the same number of words in each line. Something of the same meaning can be expressed with many different words, like 寻 and 找, both have the same meaning, but they are put together into a phrase 寻找 to make it sound nice.</p>

<p>寻找 = find
就 = then
找到 = found</p>

<p>In the example, the English can be "seek and you will find", or "seek and it will be found", but either "you" or "it" are ignored in the Chinese version.</p>

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2014-03-19T07:39:05.910Z
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Joshua Lai
<p>寻见 means 找到(find), but we do not use this word anymore.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>当你寻见了世界上有一个人 when you find someone at this world</p>
</blockquote>

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Ave Maleficum
<p>At the website <a href="http://learnchinesethrubible.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://learnchinesethrubible.org/</a> I find the following
phrase:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>seek and you will find</p>
<p>寻 找 ， 就 寻 见</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I do not understand the second &quot;xún&quot;.</p>
<p>In the dictionary <a href="http://www.mdbg.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.mdbg.net</a> I cannot find an entry for</p>
<blockquote>
<p>寻 见</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So, why is this second &quot;xún&quot; here?</p>

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现代汉语中不使用“寻见”这个词的
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<translation><mandarin><meaning>
寻 找 ， 就 寻 见: I do not understand the second "xún"
# 寻 找 ， 就 寻 见: I do not understand the second "xún"

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-03-17)

At the website <http://learnchinesethrubible.org/> I find the following
phrase:

> seek and you will find
>
> 寻 找 ， 就 寻 见

I do not understand the second "xún".

In the dictionary <http://www.mdbg.net> I cannot find an entry for

> 寻 见

So, why is this second "xún" here?

**Tags:** translation, mandarin, meaning

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: 现代汉语中不使用“寻见”这个词的  

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## 4 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2014-03-17. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

I have found it!  
It is a grammatical construct called "resultive complement".  
见 is the resultive complement for 寻. 寻 only means search and
寻 见 means "successful search" => "find".

<http://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandarin/result-complement-detail-explanation>


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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-03-18. Score: 2

That is not a normal to express the meaning of "seek and you will find" at least not in simplified chinese. In traditional, might be. I think it should be "xun zhao, ni jiang hui zhao dao"~

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: Simplified Chinese is a type of script, not a variety of the language.  

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### Answer by username_4 on 2014-03-19. Score: 1

Matthew 7:7 马太福音 7:7

Chinese Union Version 和合本 (Old version)

= 寻找，就寻见

Contemporary Chinese Translation 现代中文译本 (New version)

= 寻找，就找到

You should understand that Chinese language do not have rigid grammar structure like English. That's why it is very easy to make a poem in Chinese with the same number of words in each line. Something of the same meaning can be expressed with many different words, like 寻 and 找, both have the same meaning, but they are put together into a phrase 寻找 to make it sound nice.

寻找 = find
就 = then
找到 = found

In the example, the English can be "seek and you will find", or "seek and it will be found", but either "you" or "it" are ignored in the Chinese version.


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### Answer by username_5 on 2014-03-19. Score: 1

寻见 means 找到(find), but we do not use this word anymore.

> 当你寻见了世界上有一个人 when you find someone at this world


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