Radical 68
Chinese character radical
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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.
| 斗 | |
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Radical 68 (U+2F43)
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| 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 |
| Stroke order animation | |
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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
Oracle bone script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
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.
External links
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