抠
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to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed); to carve; to cut; to study meticulously; stingy; miserly; to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 手 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 摳
- Common rank
- #3,327
- Unicode
- U+62A0
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 抠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抠字眼儿 | erhua variant of 摳字眼|抠字眼[kou1 zi4 yan3] | |
| 抠门儿 | erhua form of 摳門|抠门[kou1 men2] | |
| 抠字眼 | to be fastidious about phrasing, diction, or choice of words | |
| 抠门 | (coll.) stingy | |
| 老抠 | penny-pincher; miser | |
| 抠脚 | to scratch one's foot; (fig.) to be stingy; (slang) (of a celebrity) to twiddle one's thum… | |
| 抠图 | (image processing) to extract a foreground object from its background; image matting | |
| 抠搜 | (coll.) stingy; miserly | |
| 抠抠搜搜 | see 摳搜|抠搜[kou1 sou5] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 区 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 区 sound part | area, district, region, ward; surname | |
| 鸥 | seagull, tern; Larus species (various) | |
| 驱 | to spur a horse on; to expel, to drive away | |
| 枢 | door hinge; pivot; center of power | |
| 呕 | to vomit; to annoy, to enrage | |
| 殴 | to hit, to beat, to fight with fists | |
| 瓯 | bowl, cup; small tray | |
| 躯 | the human body | |
| 沤 | to soak, to steep; sodden, soaked | |
| 讴 | songs; to sing | |
| 岖 | steep, sheer; rugged, rough | |
| 怄 | annoyed | |
| 眍 | sunken eyes |