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搵

简揾 · 繁搵

Mandarin · pinyin wěn#

to look for (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 找 zhǎo

Mandarin · pinyin wèn#

(literary) to wipe away (tears)
to press with one's fingers
to soak

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3 · wen3

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man5 · wan2 · wan3

Cantonese word readings for 搵. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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

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

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(obsolete) to support

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(obsolete) to tease

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(Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, Zhongshan Min) to search; to look for
(Cantonese) to earn (money)

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(Siyi Yue) to search; to look for

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(Hakka) to bend; to turn

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