dòu
woodwork, carpentry
Phonosemantic compound. 鬥 represents the sound and 斲 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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 | 24 |
Unicode | U+9B2D |
Shuowen | “鬭,遇也。从鬥,斲聲。” |
Sources
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