搵

搵 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手田人廿 (QWOT), four-corner 5601₇, composition ⿰扌𥁕)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 448, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12520
• Dae Jaweon: page 799, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 1932, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6435

搵

1. (literary or premodern vernacular or Hakka, Southern Min) to dip in; to submerge in (sauce, ink, etc.)

   搵豆油／揾豆油 [Hokkien]  ―  ùn tāu-iû [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to dip in soy sauce

搵

1. (chiefly premodern vernacular) to press (with one's finger)
2. (chiefly premodern vernacular) to wipe away
3. (premodern vernacular) to kiss; to nibble

搵

1. (obsolete) to support

搵

1. (obsolete) to tease

搵

1. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, Zhongshan Min) to search; to look for

   我搵到鎖匙喇。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我揾到锁匙喇。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ wan² dou³ so² si⁴ laa³. [Jyutping]

   I found my keys.

   搵唔到工／揾唔到工 [Cantonese]  ―  wan² m⁴ dou³ gung¹ [Jyutping]  ―  unable to find a job

   搵緊佢副眼鏡 [Cantonese, trad.]
   揾紧佢副眼镜 [Cantonese, simp.]

   wan² gan² keoi⁵ fu³ ngaan⁵ geng^3-2 [Jyutping]

   looking for their glasses

   叫佢唔好再搵我 [Cantonese, trad.]
   叫佢唔好再揾我 [Cantonese, simp.]

   giu³ keoi⁵ m⁴ hou² zoi³ wan² ngo⁵ [Jyutping]

   ask them not to try to contact me ever again

2. (Cantonese) to earn (money)

   搵錢／揾钱 [Cantonese]  ―  wan² cin⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to make money

   搵外快／揾外快 [Cantonese]  ―  wan² ngoi⁶ faai³ [Jyutping]  ―  to earn extra money

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

搵 (alt. form 找)

1. (Siyi Yue) to search; to look for

搵

1. (Hakka) to bend; to turn

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01377
• “搵”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
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• “Entry #HK0000015278”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• “Entry #HK0000015279”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 冯爱珍 [Feng, Aizhen], editor (1998), “搵”, in 福州方言词典 [Dictionary of the Fuzhou Dialect] (in Chinese), Nanjing: 江苏教育出版社 (Jiangsu Educational Press), →ISBN, page 245.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): おん (on)
• Kun: しずむ (shizumu)、おさえる (osaeru)