noun
stroke-order index; arranged by stroke count
Refers to a dictionary or reference work organized by the number of strokes in a kanji, or the act of looking up a character by stroke count.
この漢和辞典は画引きで引ける。
This kanji dictionary can be looked up by stroke count.
画引き索引を使うと、読み方がわからない漢字も調べられる。
Using a stroke-order index, you can look up kanji even when you don't know the reading.
部首引き means looking up by radical, while 画引き is by total stroke count.
音引き is looking up by reading (on'yomi), whereas 画引き uses stroke count.
Compound of 画 (kaku, 'stroke') and 引き (hiki, 'pulling' or 'looking up'), from 引く (hiku, 'to pull; to look up in a reference').