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.
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.
Standard spelling; the okurigana makes the reading clear.
Abbreviated spelling without okurigana, also used.
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').