斗

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/斗

Glyph origin
(), indicating a ladle-shaped dou (see below) held by hand.

Etymology 1
Pronunciations 1 (“dipper, ladle”) and 2 (“water ladle”) are cognate. Variant character:. They probably belong to the same word family as, as a derived noun. Within Sino-Tibetan, compare 🇨🇬,.

Definitions

 * 1)  A dipper or cup-like object, used in ancient China as a wine vessel.
 * 2) Any dou-shaped object; dipper, ladle.
 * 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.
 * 6)  small, short, narrow (as with a dipper)
 * 7)  big, high, to be full of (as with a dipper)
 * 8) Stars in general.
 * 9)  The Big Dipper, an asterism of seven stars.
 * 10)    one of
 * 11)  A subconstellation of the above mansion, consisting of six stars.
 * 12)  The Little Dipper, a constellation of six stars.
 * 13) A Chinese constellation  consisting of five stars.
 * 14)  Doumu, a goddess in Taoism.
 * 1) A unit of dry measure (for grains, especially rice) roughly equal to 1 decaliter.
 * 2) A unit of measure based on dou.
 * 3)  small, short, narrow (as with a dipper)
 * 4)  big, high, to be full of (as with a dipper)
 * 5) Stars in general.
 * 6)  The Big Dipper, an asterism of seven stars.
 * 7)    one of
 * 8)  A subconstellation of the above mansion, consisting of six stars.
 * 9)  The Little Dipper, a constellation of six stars.
 * 10) A Chinese constellation  consisting of five stars.
 * 11)  Doumu, a goddess in Taoism.
 * 1)    one of
 * 2)  A subconstellation of the above mansion, consisting of six stars.
 * 3)  The Little Dipper, a constellation of six stars.
 * 4) A Chinese constellation  consisting of five stars.
 * 5)  Doumu, a goddess in Taoism.
 * 1)  Doumu, a goddess in Taoism.
 * 1)  Doumu, a goddess in Taoism.
 * 1)  Doumu, a goddess in Taoism.

Definitions

 * 1) A unit of measure for liquids.

Definitions

 * 1)  time; an instance or occurrence

Definitions

 * 1)  snare; trap
 * 2)  to snare; to catch in a trap; to ensnare
 * 3)  to catch between two sticks
 * 4)  to fasten a latch or small bolt
 * 5)  to engage a trigger with a click sound
 * 6)  device with a trigger

Kanji

 * 1) a unit of liquid measure

Compounds

 * : the Big Dipper; the North Star

Noun

 * 1) an obsolete unit of liquid measure equal to about 18 liters (18,000 cm³)

Coordinate terms

 * (홉, hob, $1/undefined$ mal); (승, seung, $1/undefined$ mal);  (섬, seom, 10-20 mal)

Compounds

 * 大斗 (대두, daedu)
 * 小斗 (소두, sodu)
 * 刁斗 (조두, jodu)
 * 北斗 (북두, bugdu)
 * 南斗 (남두, namdu)

Pronunciation
Reconstructed after both the Middle Korean reflex and the Sino-Korean reading.

Verb

 * 1) to possess, to have