闘

See also: 鬪 and 鬥

闘 U+95D8, 闘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95D8 ← 闗 [U+95D7] CJK Unified Ideographs 闙 → [U+95D9]

Translingual

Japanese	闘
Simplified	斗
Traditional	鬥/鬭

Han character

闘 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日弓一廿戈 (ANMTI), composition ⿵門𭔰)

1. struggle, fight, compete, contend

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1341, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45649
• Dae Jaweon: page 1845, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4312, character 6
• Unihan data for U+95D8

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 闘 – see 鬥 (“to fight; to struggle; to make animals fight; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 鬥).

Japanese

Shinjitai	闘
Kyūjitai	鬪

Glyph origin

Japanese Simplified from 鬪 (鬥 → 門), itself a simplified variant of 鬭, ultimately Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) , with semantic 鬥 (“fight”) (unrelated to 門).

Phonetic is originally 斲 but this is graphically simplified to 𭔰; compare 尌, which is similar.

Kanji

闘

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鬪)

Readings

• Go-on: つ (tsu)
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
• Kun: たたかう (tatakau, 闘う, Jōyō); たたかい (tatakai)

Compounds

• 闘牛(とうぎゅう) (tōgyū): bullfighting
• 闘牛士(とうぎゅうし) (tōgyūshi): bullfighter
• 闘鶏(とうけい) (tōkei): cockfighting
• 闘犬(とうけん) (tōken): dogfighting
• 闘争(とうそう) (tōsō): struggle
• 拳闘(けんとう) (kentō): boxing
• 闘魂(とうこん) (tōkon)
• 闘士(とうし) (tōshi)
• 闘志(とうし) (tōshi): fighting spirit
• 健闘(けんとう) (kentō): good fight, strenuous effort
• 戦闘(せんとう) (sentō): battle, combat
• 闘将(とうしょう) (tōshō)
• 敢闘(かんとう) (kantō)
• 戦闘機(せんとうき) (sentōki): fighter plane
• 奮闘(ふんとう) (funtō): struggle
• 格闘(かくとう)する (kakutōsuru): struggle with/tackle (a problem)