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Kanji Detail for 斗 - "dipper, measure, constellation"
斗
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Meaning
斗 means "dipper, measure, constellation."
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.
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Four-character idioms with 斗
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冷汗三斗
れいかんさんと
breaking into cold sweat when one is very embarrassed or scared
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北斗七星
ほくとしちせい
the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
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泰山北斗
たいざんほくと
great authority; eminent person; luminary
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冷汗三斗
れいかんさんと
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Tattoo check: 斗
- Verified meaning: dipper, measure, constellation
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
- Used in real Japanese given names (read はかる)
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 斗
Given names 斗(はかる)
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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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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Related Keywords
Sentences including 斗
That's the Big Dipper.
I love Fist of the North Star!
You can find the Big Dipper easily.
星座は全然詳しくないな。オリオン座とカシオペア座くらいしか見てもわからない。あと北斗七星もわかる。
I know nothing about constellations. I can only recognize Orion and Cassiopeia. Oh, and the Big Dipper, too.
「お母さんのしゃべり方って、おばあちゃんにそっくりだよね？」「そりゃそうよ。おばあちゃんに育てられたんだから。優斗だって、お父さんの話し方にそっくりよ」
"Don't you think Mom speaks exactly like Grandma?" "Yeah, she does. That's because she was raised by her. Yuuto speaks just like his dad, too."