闘

See also 鬪, and 鬥

Translingual

Etymology

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

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

Han character

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

1. struggle, fight, compete, contend

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

闘 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: たたかう (tatakau), たたかい (tatakai)

Compounds

闘牛 (とうぎゅう, tōgyū) 闘鶏 (とうけい, tōkei) 闘犬 (とうけん, tōken) 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) 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”)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

闘 (pinyin dòu (dou4), Wade-Giles tou⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

闘 (chùa)