| 抠 | [ 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 |
| 抠图 | [ koū tú ] to clip (an image), image clipping |
| 抠字眼 | [ koū zì yǎn ] to be fastidious about phrasing, diction, or choice of words |
| 抠字眼儿 | [ koū zì yǎn ] erhua variant of 摳字眼|抠字眼[kou1 zi4 yan3] |
| 抠脚 | [ 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) |
| 抠门儿 | [ koū mén ] (dialect) stingy |
| ⇒ 老抠 | [ laǒ koū ] penny-pincher, miser |