(dòu) - fight, struggle in Mandarin
dòuTraditional: 鬥
Translation
fight, struggle
Word origin
The simplified form 斗 stands for 鬥, which was a pictograph of two figures grappling, giving the meaning to fight or struggle.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- 鬥 (a pictograph of two figures grappling, hence to fight)
Stroke order
斗
Examples
。
They are fighting.
烈。
The battle is intense.
。
He is not afraid to fight difficulty.
。
The two of them are bickering again.
牛牙传。
Bullfighting is a Spanish tradition.
斗 (dòu) means fight or struggle, and combines with 战 in 战斗 (zhàn dòu), battle.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 斗.
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