in English

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

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 搵, the traditional character: 揾 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 搵 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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