Radical 68
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|68|uni=6597
|meaning=dipper
|pny= dǒu
|bopo= ㄉㄡˇ
|wade= tou3
|jyutping= dau2
|yale= dáu
|poj= tó͘ (lit.), táu (col.)
|cn= 斗字旁 dǒuzìpáng
|onyomi= ト to / トウ tō
|kunyomi= ます masu
|jp= 斗/と to
斗/ます masu
とます tomasu
|kanji=
|hang= 말 mal
|hanja= 두 du
}}
Radical 68 or radical dipper ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|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.
{{Lang|zh|市斗}} shìdǒu, sometimes represented by {{Lang|zh|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
File:斗-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:斗-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:斗-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斗}} |
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| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斘}} |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|料}} {{Linktext|斚}} (=斝) {{Linktext|斛}} |
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| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斜}} |
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| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斝}} |
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| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斞}} {{Linktext|斟}} |
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| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斠}} {{Linktext|斡}} {{Linktext|斢|lang=zh-Hans}}SC variant |
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| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斢|lang=zh-Hant}}TC variant |
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| +13 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斣}} |
Literature
- {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
- {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}