鬥

See also 斗, 鬦, 鬪, 鬬, 鬭, 門, 閗, and 闘

Translingual

Stroke order

simplified	斗
traditional	鬥

Etymology

鬥 and 鬭 are original characters of this form; all others are later corruptions.

Simplified to existing character 斗 in Simplified Chinese, via 鬦.

Simplified to 門 in some characters, such as 闘.

Han character

鬥 (radical 191 鬥+0, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中弓 (LN), four-corner 7711₄)

1. struggle, fight, compete, contend

Descendants

• 門 (simplified to this in some characters, such as 闘)

References

• KangXi: page 1457, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45632
• Dae Jaweon: page 1989, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4515, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9B25

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鬥 (simplified 斗, Yale dau3)

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Japanese

Kanji

鬥

Readings

• On: とう (tō), つ (tsu), かく (kaku)
• Kun: たたかう (tatakau), あらそう (arasou)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鬥 (simplified 斗, pinyin dòu (dou4), Wade-Giles tou⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鬥 (đấu, dấu)