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Mythic Mandarin

斗 (dòu): meaning and stroke order

斗 (dòu) means to fight, to struggle, to condemn, to censure, to contend, to put together.

斗

Simplified
斗
Traditional
鬥, 鬦, 鬪, 鬭, 斗
Pinyin
dòu · Dǒu

Stroke order of 斗

斗

  • Dǒu abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]
  • dǒu dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4]; decaliter
  • dòu to fight; to struggle
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鬥

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 斗

  1. dòu Traditional 鬥
    • to fight
    • to struggle
    • to condemn
    • to censure
    • to contend
    • to put together
    • coming together
  2. dòu Traditional 鬦
    • variant of 鬭|斗[dou4]
  3. dòu Traditional 鬪
    • variant of 鬥|斗[dou4]
  4. dòu Traditional 鬭
    • variant of 鬥|斗[dou4]
  5. Dǒu
    • abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]
  6. dǒu
    • dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4]
    • decaliter
    • peck
    • cup or dipper shaped object
    • old variant of 陡[dou3]

Radical and structure

斗
Radical 斗 (Kangxi radical 68) · 4 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 斗

斗 in our stories

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  • 淡蓝色的字迹慢慢浮现了出来——是一列列人名，每个名字后面都写着“米一斗”。

    dàn lánsè de zìjì mànmàn fúxiàn le chūlai shì yí liè liè rénmíng měi gè míngzi hòumiàn dōu xiě zhe mǐ yì dǒu

    Pale blue writing slowly surfaced: columns of names, each followed by "one dou of rice".

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 斗

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).