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Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #191, ⾾ ‎(“fight”).

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

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鬥
Oracle bone script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) — two clenched fists.

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

Simplified form 斗 is via the variant form 鬦.

Etymology

Conflation of two roots "to fight" and "to meet", and the merger has been attested since ancient times.

"To fight": Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *daw ‎(“to defy, interfere, be at enmity with”), which is the source of Tibetan སྡོ་བ ‎(sdo ba, “risk, hazard, venture; to bear up against, bid defiance”) and Burmese တော့ ‎(tau., “to resent an insinuation, interfere in a quarrel”).

"To meet": Schuessler (2007) considers this cognate with 注 (“to apply; to be touched; to bring together; to join”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

Definitions

鬥

1. to fight, to struggle

   爭鬥 / 争斗  ―  zhēngdòu  ―  to fight

   戰鬥 / 战斗  ―  zhàndòu  ―  battle

   • 械鬥 / 械斗  ―  xièdòu  ―  to fight with weapons
   • 拳鬥 / 拳斗  ―  quándòu  ―  fist fight
   • 格鬥 / 格斗  ―  gédòu  ―  grapple
   • 搏鬥 / 搏斗  ―  bódòu  ―  to wrestle
   • 明爭暗鬥 / 明争暗斗  ―  míngzhēng'àndòu  ―  both open strife and veiled struggle
   • 龍爭虎鬥 / 龙争虎斗  ―  lóngzhēnghǔdòu  ―  fierce struggle between two evenly-matched opponents
   • 角鬥 / 角斗  ―  jiǎodòu  ―  to battle
   • 鬥士 / 斗士  ―  dòushì  ―  warrior
   • 鬥志 / 斗志  ―  dòuzhì  ―  morale
   • 鬥毆 / 斗殴  ―  dòuōu  ―  to brawl
   • 鬥氣 / 斗气  ―  dòuqì  ―  to quarrel just to vent one's spleen
   • 鬥艦 / 斗舰  ―  dòujiàn  ―  man-of-war
2. to make animals fight

   鬥雞 / 斗鸡  ―  dòujī  ―  cockfighting

   鬥牛 / 斗牛  ―  dòuniú  ―  bull-fight

3. to contend, to compete with

   鬥爭 / 斗争  ―  dòuzhēng  ―  conflict

   鬥嘴 / 斗嘴  ―  dòuzuǐ  ―  to squabble

   • 鬥智 / 斗智  ―  dòuzhì  ―  contest of wits
   • 批鬥 / 批斗  ―  pīdòu  ―  to criticize and denounce a person
4. to strive one's best

   奮鬥 / 奋斗  ―  fèndòu  ―  to work at one's utmost

5. (archaic) (of stars) to collide with each other
6. chaotic, disorderly, helter-skelter
7. to take the opportunity to ..., to do something while it's ...
8. to meet, to encounter, to face
9. to face, to confront, to front, to be opposite
10. to piece together, to fit together
11. (dialectal) to help, to assist
12. (dialectal) very, quite
13. (dialectal) to collude, to plot
14. fine tea, tea of the best quality
15. (dialectal) bird nest
16. Alternative form of 逗 (dòu, “to tease, to play with”).
17. Alternative form of 兜 (dōu, “to solicit (customers or business)”).
18. Alternative form of 陡 (dǒu, “suddenly, in a sudden”).
19. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(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()

• Name (hangeul): 싸울()

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary

Vietnamese

Han character

鬥 (đấu, dấu)

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