搜
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叟
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扌
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The old gentleman (叟) wants to enter the outhouse. In front of the outhouse (ou1) he has to undergo a security check, and Socrates (s) searches (搜) his belongings using a toy claw (扌).
寻
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寸
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彐
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Mnemonic symbol: a dowsing rod 寻水术. Not to be confused with 丫!
Xu Xian (xu) built a new dowsing rod (寻) which he tests just inside the Erechtheion's entrance ((e)n2). He prepared a huge pig snout (彐) of which he filled one nostril with water and one with wine. To his satisfaction, the dowsing rod reacts only to the wine, so he thumbs up (寸) satisfied. He'll go and search (寻) more wine with it immediately.
to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters