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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Cantonese

Hanzi

斗 (traditional 鬥, Jyutping dau2, Yale dau2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

斗 (POJ téu, Guangdong teu³; teu³, teu⁵ [Dongguan], tiu³ [Bao'an], Hagfa Pinyim deu3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Noun

1. a unit of liquid measure equal to 18liters or 18000cl.

Kanji

斗

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

• 北斗

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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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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

斗 (traditional 斗, Pinyin dǒu (dou3), Wade-Giles tou³)

斗 (traditional 鬥, Pinyin dǒu (dou3), Wade-Giles tou³)

Hypernyms

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

Derived terms

• 斗宿

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Middle Chinese

Han character

斗 (*dǒu)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

斗 (TLPA tóo (too²), táu (tau²), Guangdong diou³, dao³)

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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Vietnamese

Han character

斗 (đẩu, đấu, điếu, tẩn)