斗
Radical 68 (U+2F43)
斗 (U+6597) "dipper"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:dǒu
Bopomofo:ㄉㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:tou3
Cantonese Yale:dáu
Jyutping:dau2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:tó͘ (lit.), táu (col.)
Japanese Kana:ト to / トウ tō (on'yomi)
ます masu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:두 du
Names
Chinese name(s):斗字旁 dǒuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):斗/と to
斗/ます masu
とます tomasu
Hangul:말 mal
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Radical 68 or radical dipper (斗部) meaning "dipper" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 32 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

斗 is also the 96th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

市斗 shìdǒu, sometimes represented by 斗 dǒu alone, is also the symbol for a Chinese traditional measurement of dry volume equaling about 10 liters, which is ~18.16 pints, ~2.27 gallons, ~610.2 cubic inches, or ~0.3531 cubic feet.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0斗
+3斘
+6料 斚 (=斝) 斛
+7斜
+8斝
+9斞 斟
+10斠 斡 斢SC variant
+12斢TC variant
+13斣

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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