dòu
fight
Pictograph of two people wrestling each other.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤok-s | tuwH | dòu | quarrel, wrangle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 38.7794% of movies
869th most common character in movies
580th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9B25 |
Shuowen | “鬥,兩士相對,兵杖在後,象鬥之形。” |
Sources
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