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鬭

dòu

woodwork, carpentry

Phonosemantic compound. 鬥 represents the sound and 斲 represents the meaning.

Components
鬥 sound component

鬥  Sound component

dòu

  

fight

斲 sound,meaning component

斲  Sound Meaning component

zhuó

  

chop, carve wood

Evolution

鬭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬭 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鬭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鬭  

dòu

struggle, fight, compete, contend; (Cant.) woodwork, carpentry

斗 (鬭) 

dòu

variant of 鬥|斗[dòu]

Most common words with 鬭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

战斗

to fight

斗争

fight

斗

to fight

奋斗

to strive

战斗机

fighter (aircraft)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤok-s

tuwH

dòu

quarrel, wrangle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 38.7794% of movies

869th most common character in movies

580th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Unicode

U+9B2D

Shuowen

“鬭，遇也。从鬥，斲聲。”


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