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 67
Radical 68 (U+2F43)
69 
(U+6597) "dipper"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:dǒu
Bopomofo:ㄉㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:tou3
Cantonese Yale:dáu
Jyutping:dau2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:tó͘ (lit.), táu (col.)
Japanese Kana:ト to / トウ tō (on'yomi)
ます masu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:두 du
Names
Chinese name(s):斗字旁 dǒuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):斗/と to
斗/ます masu
とます tomasu
Hangul:말 mal
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Radical 68 or radical dipper (斗部) meaning "dipper" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 32 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 96th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

市斗 shìdǒu, sometimes represented by dǒu alone, is also the symbol for a Chinese traditional measurement of dry volume equaling about 10 liters, which is ~18.16 pints, ~2.27 gallons, ~610.2 cubic inches, or ~0.3531 cubic feet.

Evolution

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Unrelated to ; compare .

Derived characters

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StrokesCharacters
+0
+3
+6 (=斝)
+7
+8
+9
+10 SC variant
+12TC variant
+13

Literature

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  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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