抠摳

meaning for 抠 kōu:

• - to dig out
• - to pick out (with one's fingers)
• - to carve
• - to cut
• - to study meticulously
• - to lift one's clothes
• - stingy
• - miserlyto be fastidious about phrasing, diction, or choice of words(dialect) stingypenny-pincher
• - misererhua variant of 抠字眼 to separate rigidly by the book