斗

See also: 鬥

Translingual

Stroke order

Wikipedia

Han character

斗 (radical 68 斗+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜十 (YJ), four-corner 3400₀)

1. Chinese peck
2. liquid measure
3. (astronomy) the Dipper, a Chinese constellation near Sagittarius
4. struggle, fight, compete, contend (simp. only)

Derived characters

• 料 斛 斡 魁

References

• KangXi: page 477, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13489
• Dae Jaweon: page 835, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2252, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6597

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Chinese

simpl.		斗
trad.		斗/鬥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǒu (dou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dau²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): téu
• Min Nan (POJ): táu / tó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doou
    • IPA ^(key): /toʊ̯²¹⁴/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dau²
    • Yale: dáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dau²
    • IPA ^(key): /tɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: téu
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /te̯u³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táu / tó͘
    • Tâi-lô: táu / tó͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /taʊ⁴¹/, /tɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taʊ⁵³/, /tɔ⁵³/
  • Note: táu - vernacular, tó͘ - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (斗, reconstructed)
Character (斗), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 當口切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/təuX/	/tə̯uX/	/tuX/	/təuX/	/təwX/	/təuX/	/təuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (斗, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
斗								dǒu								‹ tuwX ›								/*tˤoʔ/								bushel; ladle
斗								zhǔ								‹ tsyuX ›								/*toʔ/								ladle
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
斗					2451					斗					侯					0					斗					/*toːʔ/

Hypernyms

• 玄武 (constellation)
• 二十八宿 (constellation)

Derived terms

• 斗宿

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)
• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

斗

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: と (to), とう (tō)
• Kun: とます (tomasu), ます (masu), ひしゃく (hishaku)

Compounds

• 北斗

Noun

斗 (hiragana と, romaji to)

1. an obsolete unit of liquid measure equal to 18 liters or 18000 cc.

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Korean

Hanja

斗 (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune-Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

1. (말 두): measure of about 18 liters; such measuring vessel
2. (조두 두): cauldron; cymbal
3. (구기 두): dipper, ladle
4. (별이름 두): asterism around Polaris such as Big Dipper and Little Dipper

Synonyms

• (cauldron): 刁

Related terms

• 升 (승, seung)
• 合 (홉, hob)

Compounds

• 大斗 (대두, daedu)
• 小斗 (소두, sodu)
• 刁斗 (조두, jodu)

• 北斗 (북두, bugdu)
• 南斗 (남두, namdu)

References

• 斗 (국제퇴계학회)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

斗 (*dǒu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

斗 (đẩu, đấu, điếu, tẩn)

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