Talk:斗

The line "斗 (traditional 斗, pinyin dǒu (dou3), Wade-Giles tou3)" could be superfluous and partially incorrect. It is followed by the only slightly different line "斗 (traditional 鬥, pinyin dǒu (dou3), Wade-Giles tou3)". Since I am inferring this from common sense and only very basic knowledge of and about Mandarin Chinese, I call upon someone knowledgeable to either confirm or deny this.Redav (talk) 01:16, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I will work on this today. 129.78.32.24 01:36, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. 129.78.32.24 03:16, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

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Graphical etymology
Pictographic (), indicating a ladle-shaped dou (see below) held by hand. Variant characters: 𤣫, 𠦁, 𣁬.

See 鬥 for its graphical etymology.

Derived characters: 阧, 抖, 呌, 斘, 枓, 炓, 钭, 鈄, 科, 蚪, 料, 紏, 酙, 斜, 斛, 斠, 斢, 斣, 斝, 斚, 乧, 閗, 鬦, 戽, 﨣, 魁, 斡.

Etymology
Pronunciations 1 ("dipper, ladle") and 2 ("water ladle") are cognate. Variant character: 枓 ("ladle"). They probably belong to the same word family as 注 (zhù < OC *tro-s (B-S) or *tjos (ZS), "to pour"), as a derived noun. Within Sino-Tibetan, compare Tibetan ཆུ:, འཆུ་བ:, བཅུས་པ:.

Pronunciation 3 ("to fight") is probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan, which is the source of Tibetan སྡོ་བ: and Burmese တော့:. 斗 (pronunciation 3) is also a variant form of 鬭 (dòu < OC *tˁok-s (B-S) or *toːɡs (ZS), "to meet, to encounter"), see there for more.

Hanzi

 * 1) a dipper or cup-like object, used in ancient China as a wine vessel.
 * 斗量 ("to measure with dou, numerous"), 斗筲 ("dou and xiao, humble, insignificant")
 * 1) a unit of measure based on dou.
 * 升斗 ("sheng and dou, a small amount")
 * 1) a unit of dry measure (for grains, especially rice) roughly equal to 1 decaliter.
 * 2) any dou-shaped object; dipper, ladle.
 * 漏斗 ("funnel"), 烟斗 ("tobacco pipe"), 熨斗 ("flatiron"), 风斗 ("wind scoop"), 水斗 ("water ladle"), 墨斗 ("carpenter's ink marker"), 抽斗 ("drawer"), 斗笠 ("wide-brimmed rain hat"), 斗篷 ("cape, cloak")
 * 1) (刁斗) cauldron, cymbal
 * 2) (round or spiral shaped) fingerprint, dactylogram
 * 3) (枓, 斗拱)  the system of wood brackets on the top of a column supporting the crossbeam
 * 4)  small, short, narrow
 * 斗室 ("small room")
 * 1)  big, high, to be full of
 * 斗胆 ("venture; boldly")
 * 1) (北斗, 北斗七星) The Big Dipper, an asterism of seven stars.
 * 星移斗转 / 斗转星移 ("passage of time"), 泰斗 ("the leading authority")
 * 1) stars in general.
 * 星斗 ("stars")
 * 1) (斗宿) The, one of the twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations.
 * 2) (南斗) a subconstellation of the above mansion, consisting of six stars.
 * 3) (小北斗) The Little Dipper, a constellation of six stars.
 * 4) a Chinese constellation consisting of five stars.
 * 5) (斗姆) Doumu, a goddess in Taoism.
 * , a Chinese character radical.
 * 1) rebus character for 陡: steep, cliffy
 * 2) rebus character for 陡: suddenly, in a sudden
 * 3) rebus character for 抖: to tremble, to shake off
 * 4) see 科斗 (alternative form of 蝌蚪 ("tadpole")).


 * 1) (枓) ladle or spoon used for scooping water.
 * 2) a unit of measure for liquids.
 * 3) rebus character for 主: master, God.


 * 1) to fight, to struggle
 * 争斗 ("to fight"), 战斗 ("battle"), 械斗 ("to fight with weapons"), 拳斗 ("fist fight"), 格斗 ("grapple"), 搏斗 ("to wrestle"), 明争暗斗 ("both open strife and veiled struggle"), 龙争虎斗 ("fierce struggle between two evenly-matched opponents"), 角斗 ("to battle"), 斗士 ("warrior"), 斗志 ("morale"), 斗殴 ("to brawl"), 斗气 ("to quarrel just to vent one's spleen"), 斗舰 ("man-of-war")
 * 1) to make (animal) fight
 * 斗鸡 ("cockfighting"), 斗牛 ("bull-fight"), 斗鸡眼 ("cross-eye")
 * 1) to contend, to compete with
 * 斗争 ("conflict"), 斗智 ("contest of wits"), 斗嘴 ("to squabble"), 批斗 ("to criticize and denounce a person")
 * 1) to strive one's best
 * 奋斗 ("to work at one's utmost")
 * 1)  (of stars) to collide with each other
 * 2) chaotic, disorderly, helter-skelter
 * 3) to take the opportunity to ..., to do something while it's ...
 * 4) to face, to confront, to front, to be opposite
 * 5) to encounter, to face
 * 6) to piece together, to fit together
 * 7) fine tea, tea of the best quality
 * 8)  bird nest
 * 9) rebus character for 逗: to tease, to play with
 * 10) rebus character for 兜: to solicit (customers or business)
 * 11) rebus character for 陡: suddenly, in a sudden
 * 12) a Chinese surname.

Compounds

 * 阿斗 ("nickname for ; a fool")
 * 筋斗 ("somersault")