kōu

raise

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

區 sound component

  Sound component

  

area

Evolution

摳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
摳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kōu

raise, lift up; tight-fisted; to dig out; to pick out (with one's fingers); to carve; to cut; to study meticulously; to lift one's clothes; stingy; miserly

Most common words with 摳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to dig out

抠字眼

to be fastidious about phrasing, diction, or choice of words

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4103rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+6473

Shuowen

“摳,繑也。一曰摳衣升堂。从手,區聲。”


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