Chinese character 搎

It means feeling or searching by hand.

搎 appears chiefly in the older Chinese compound 捫搎, whose gloss 摸索 means feeling around or searching by touch. Its earliest known dictionary record is in the Guangyun, a Chinese rhyme dictionary compiled around 1008 that groups characters by sound. The entry records that tactile sense, but it does not date the character’s creation; the dictionary also draws on earlier rhyme-book material.

What does 搎 suggest in a sentence?

The surrounding scene decides what the hand is searching for.

The dictionary’s literary examples describe a hand feeling beneath a cover and someone probing for a suspected intruder. Read it as a hand action first; the sentence decides whether the scene feels practical, intimate, or alarming.

How do I type 搎?

Enter its Mandarin pinyin, then choose the uncommon candidate.

A Chinese pinyin keyboard accepts sun or sūn, but other characters share the reading, so you may need to choose from a longer candidate list. In Wubi, a shape-based Chinese input method, the dictionary lists RBTI; in Cangjie, another shape-based method, it lists QNDF.