Cojak

Hanzi Character Search: 摳

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raise, lift up; tight-fisted
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 11 Total Strokes 14
Mandarin reading koū Cantonese reading kau1
Japanese on reading kou ku ou u Japanese kun reading hirou
Korean reading kwu Vietnamese reading khua
Simplified Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ koū ]    to dig out, to pick out (with one's fingers), to carve, to cut, to study meticulously, to lift one's clothes, stingy, miserly
   [ koū ]    to clip (an image), image clipping
   [ koū yǎn ]    to be fastidious about phrasing, diction, or choice of words
   [ koū yǎn ]    erhua variant of 摳字眼|抠字眼[kou1 zi4 yan3]
   [ koū ]    to scratch one's foot, (fig.) to be stingy, (slang) (of a celebrity) to twiddle one's thumbs (i.e. not release any new material etc)
   [ koū mén ]    (dialect) stingy
⇒    [ laǒ koū ]    penny-pincher, miser

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