鬥

See also: 斗, 鬦, 鬪, 鬬, 鬭, 門, 閗, and 闘

Translingual

Stroke order

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)

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

---

Chinese

		-
trad.		鬥
simp.		斗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dòu (dou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dau³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): tèu
• Min Nan (POJ): tàu / tò͘

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dow
    • IPA ^(key): /toʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dau³
    • Yale: dau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dau³
    • IPA ^(key): /tɐu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tèu
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /te̯u¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tàu / tò͘
    • Tâi-lô: tàu / tò͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /taʊ¹¹/, /tɔ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taʊ²¹/, /tɔ²¹/
  • Note: tàu - vernacular, tò͘ - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (鬥, reconstructed)
Character (鬥), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 都豆切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/təuH/	/tə̯uH/	/tuH/	/təuH/	/təwH/	/təuH/	/təuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (鬥, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
鬥								dòu								‹ tuwH ›								/*tˤok-s/								quarrel, wrangle
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
鬥					2481					鬥					竇					0					鬥					/*toːɡs/

Definitions

鬥

1. to struggle, fight, compete, contend

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

---

Japanese

Kanji

鬥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to fight

Readings

• Goon: つ (tsu)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kun: たたかう (tatakau), あらそう (arasou)

---

Korean

Hanja

鬥 (du, tu, gak)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 두, 투, 각 (revised: du, tu, gak, McCune-Reischauer: tu, t'u, kak, Yale: twu, thwu, kak)

• Name (hangeul): 싸울()

1. This entry needs a definition. Please add one, then remove {{defn}}.

References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary

---

Vietnamese

Han character

鬥 (đấu, dấu)

1. This entry needs a definition. Please add one, then remove {{defn}}.