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Han character

斗 (radical 68 斗+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜十 (YJ), four-corner 3400₀)

1. Kangxi radical #68, ⽃ ‎(“dipper”).

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 斗
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) (Shuowen), indicating a ladle-shaped dou (see below) held by hand.

Etymology 1

Pronunciations 1 ("dipper, ladle") and 2 ("water ladle") are cognate. Variant character: 枓 (dǒu, “ladle”). They probably belong to the same word family as 注 (zhù, “to pour”), as a derived noun. Within Sino-Tibetan, compare Tibetan ཆུ ‎(chu, “water”), འཆུ་བ ‎('chu ba, “to scoop up, to ladle water”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

斗

1. A dipper or cup-like object, used in ancient China as a wine vessel.
   • 斗量  ―  dǒuliàng  ―  to measure with dou; numerous
   • 斗筲  ―  dǒushāo  ―  dou and xiao; humble; insignificant
2. Any dou-shaped object; dipper, ladle.

   漏斗  ―  lòudǒu  ―  funnel

   熨斗  ―  yùndǒu  ―  flatiron

   • 煙斗 / 烟斗  ―  yāndǒu  ―  tobacco pipe
   • 風斗 / 风斗  ―  fēngdǒu  ―  wind scoop
   • 水斗  ―  shuǐdǒu  ―  water ladle
   • 墨斗  ―  mòdǒu  ―  carpenter's ink marker
   • 抽斗  ―  chōudǒu  ―  drawer
   • 斗笠  ―  dǒulì  ―  wide-brimmed rain hat
   • 斗篷  ―  dǒupéng  ―  cape, cloak
3. Round or spiral shaped; fingerprint (a dactylogram)
4. A unit of dry measure (for grains, especially rice) roughly equal to 1 decaliter.
5. A unit of measure based on dou.
   • 升斗  ―  shēngdǒu  ―  sheng and dou; a small amount
6. (figuratively) small, short, narrow (as with a dipper)
   • 斗室  ―  dǒushì  ―  small room
7. (figuratively) big, high, to be full of (as with a dipper)
   • 斗膽 / 斗胆  ―  dǒudǎn  ―  venture; boldly
8. Stars in general.
   • 星斗  ―  xīngdǒu  ―  stars
9. (北斗) The Big Dipper, an asterism of seven stars.
   • 星移斗轉 / 星移斗转  ―  xīngyídǒuzhuǎn  ―  passage of time
   • 泰斗  ―  tàidǒu  ―  the leading authority
10. (斗宿) The Dipper (Chinese constellation), one of the twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations.
11. (南斗) A subconstellation of the above mansion, consisting of six stars.
12. (小北斗) The Little Dipper, a constellation of six stars.
13. A Chinese constellation (星官) consisting of five stars.
14. Short for 刁斗 (“cauldron, cymbal”).
15. Short for 科斗 (“tadpole”).
16. (斗姆) Doumu, a goddess in Taoism.
17. Alternative form of 枓 (“the system of wood brackets on the top of a column supporting the crossbeam”).
    • 斗拱  ―  dǒugǒng  ―  corbel bracket
18. Alternative form of 陡 (dǒu, “steep, cliffy”).
19. Alternative form of 陡 (dǒu, “suddenly, in a sudden”).
20. Alternative form of 抖 (dǒu, “to tremble, to shake off”).

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

斗

1. A unit of measure for liquids.
2. Alternative form of 枓 (“ladle or spoon used for scooping water”).
3. Alternative form of 主 (zhǔ, “master, God”).

Etymology 2

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

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

Compounds

Noun

斗 ‎(hiragana と, romaji to)

1. an obsolete unit of liquid measure equal to 18 liters or 18000 cc.

Korean

Hanja

斗 • ‎(du) (hangeul 두)

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

References

• 斗 (국제퇴계학회)

Vietnamese

Han character

斗 (đẩu, đấu, điếu, tẩn)

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