Radical 68 or radical dipper (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.
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
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Oracle bone script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 斗 |
+3 | 斘 |
+6 | 料 斚 (=斝) 斛 |
+7 | 斜 |
+8 | 斝 |
+9 | 斞 斟 |
+10 | 斠 斡 斢SC variant |
+12 | 斢TC variant |
+13 | 斣 |
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.