斗

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

1. Kangxi radical #68, ⽃.

• Index:Chinese radical/斗
• 料, 斛, 斡, 魁, 蚪, 斜

• 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

Historical forms of the character 斗
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

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 (OC *tjos, “to pour”), as a derived noun. Within Sino-Tibetan, compare Tibetan ཆུ (chu, “water”), འཆུ ('chu, “to scoop up, to ladle water”).

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”).

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”).

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. a unit of liquid measure

• Go-on: つ (tsu)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yō-on: と (to, Jōyō)
• Kun: ます (masu, 斗); ひしゃく (hishaku, 斗); とます (tomasu, 斗)

斗 (hiragana と, rōmaji to)

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

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

• (cauldron): 刁

• (unit): 合 (홉, hob, ¹⁄₁₀₀ mal); 升 (승, seung, ¹⁄₁₀ mal); 石 (섬, seom, 10-20 mal)

• 斗 (국제퇴계학회)

斗 (đẩu, đấu, điếu, tẩu)

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