搣

搣 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手戈竹火 (QIHF) or 難手戈竹火 (XQIHF), four-corner 5305₀, composition ⿰扌烕)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 447, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12495
• Dae Jaweon: page 798, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1930, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6423

搣

1. to uproot
2. to massage
3. to snap one's fingers
4. (Cantonese, Sichuanese) to break apart with the fingers

   搣開／搣开 [Cantonese]  ―  mit¹ hoi¹   ―  to tear open

   搣爛張紙／搣烂张纸 [Cantonese]  ―  mit¹ laan⁶ zoeng¹ zi²   ―  to tear apart a sheet of paper

5. (Cantonese) to peel

   搣蘋果／搣苹果 [Cantonese]  ―  mit¹ ping⁴ gwo²   ―  to peel an apple

   搣皮 [Cantonese]  ―  mit¹ pei⁴   ―  to peel one's layer of dead skin cells

6. (Cantonese) to pinch with one's fingers

   佢又搣我噼噼。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   keoi⁵ jau⁶ mit¹ ngo⁵ pet¹ pet¹.

   He has once again pinched my buttocks.

7. (Cantonese) to scrap; to get rid of
8. (Hakka) to do; to make

   搣衰人 [Sixian Hakka]  ―  met-sôi ngìn [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]  ―  to play tricks on someone

9. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to grab a handful with the hands
10. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Classifier for handfuls of something, such as grains, soil, etc..
11. (Wu) to twist; to turn; to screw

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01371
• “搣”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

搣: Hán Nôm readings: dạt, giạt

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