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to strive; to struggle
HSK 4
to fight / to engage in combat / struggle / battle / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together
HSK 7-9
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
variant of 鬭|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
to struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
abbr. for 泰山北斗
HSK 7-9
to wrestle; to fight; to struggle
HSK 7-9
will to fight / fighting spirit
HSK 7-9
internal power struggle
to engage (in a fight)
(astronomy) Big Dipper
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星
cattle feeder / hopper (wicker basket)
to wrestle
wrestling ring
fighter
nuclear warhead
fighting strength
a human rights activist / a fighter for human rights
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dry measure for grain equal to ten or one-tenth of a / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of
lit. Mount Tai and the Big Dipper (idiom) / fig. an outstanding figure in one's field
person of limited capacity
to fight
cloak / mantle
weak and inept person / hopeless case
to wrestle
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
(smoking) pipe
cock fighting
Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
to duel / a duel / decisive struggle
tumble / somersault
to have a grudge against
tadpole / also written 蝌蚪
(idiom) of great talent
to quarrel / to bicker / glib repartee
stars
hopper car / wheelbarrow
to fight alone (idiom)
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
funnel
to struggle / to fight / struggle
to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
conical bamboo hat
dougong – an interlocking wooden bracket system between the top of a column and a crossbeam, used in traditional Chinese architecture to support overhanging roofs, composed of blocks and arms fitted together without nails
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
A-dou, nickname of Liu Shan 劉禪|刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / (fig.) weak and inept person
clothes iron
lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 星移斗轉|星移斗转
armed confrontation / bust-up between gangs
having high fighting spirit
carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
somersault / fall; tumble / (fig.) setback; failure
battle of wits
Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
bullfighting
(courteous) to be so bold as to
very small room; tiny, cramped space
Aegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy)
hard fighting / fierce battle
internal strife (family, group, etc)
to tumble / to fall head over heels / (fig.) to take a tumble
chest of drawers
clothes iron
to have a fist fight / fist fight / brawl
small open trailer
variant of 煙斗|烟斗
lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 斗轉星移|斗转星移
dustpan
fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan)
drawer
lit. measured in cartloads and gallons / fig. by the barrowload (i.e. lots and lots) / innumerable
to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads / dump box (of a dump truck) / bucket (of a front loader) / wheelbarrow
struggle, criticize, and transform (Cultural Revolution catchcry)
cross-eye
dou dizhu ("fight the landlord") (card game)
variant of 筋斗
protective cape
huge
Dounan or Tounan town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
sidecar
the Big Dipper / the Plow
class struggle
an ancient bamboo container / narrow-mindedness
fighter (aircraft)
gladiator
matador / toreador / bullfighter
bailing bucket (tool for irrigating fields) / protruding lower jaw
warrior / activist
liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff
fight between powerful contenders

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