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Kanji Detail for 斗 - "dipper, measure, star"
斗
- Meaning
斗 means "dipper, measure, star."
Dipper - A ladle for scooping liquids.
Measure - A unit of volume (about 18 liters).
Constellation - The Big Dipper or Little Dipper stars.
Small - Tiny; insignificant.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
Big Dipper; ten sho (vol); sake dipper; dots and cross radical (no. 68)
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
a dipper; unit of volume (ten 升 or litres); Kangxi radical 68; 8th lunar mansion, determinative star φ Sagittarii
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to struggle, to fight, to contend; measuring cup
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A measuring vessel. Ten sheng is one dou. Its volume is 316 cubic cun. Now, one market dou equals 270 cubic market cun. | A wine vessel. Such as 玉斗. All vessels shaped like a dipper are 斗. Such as 刁斗, 熨斗. | Metaphor for small. Such as 斗城, 斗帳. | A star name. One of the twenty-eight lunar mansions, commonly called the Southern Dipper. The Northern Dipper has seven stars, similar in shape to the Southern Dipper, outside the Purple Forbidden enclosure. | To halt, stop. Interchangeable with 阧, 陡.
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