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to strive; to struggle
HSK 4
to fight / to engage in combat / struggle / battle / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
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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
betta fish; Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) / Chinese betta; paradise fish (genus Macropodus)
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星
a cornered beast will still fight (idiom) / to fight like an animal at bay
to struggle / to fight / struggle
to struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
armed confrontation / bust-up between gangs
Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
protective cape
to engage (in a fight)
paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis)
dou dizhu ("fight the landlord") (card game)
BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) (similar to GPS)
mixed martial arts (MMA)
power struggle
to wrestle
(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
chest of drawers
to wrestle; to fight; to struggle
HSK 7-9
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
having high fighting spirit
fighter (aircraft)
(astronomy) Big Dipper
internal power struggle
battleship
to have a grudge against
small open trailer
abbr. for 泰山北斗
HSK 7-9
warrior / activist
(idiom) of great talent
cattle feeder / hopper (wicker basket)
Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
clothes iron
Colosseum (Rome)
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
fight between powerful contenders
a human rights activist / a fighter for human rights
to quarrel / to bicker / glib repartee
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution)
liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff
struggle session
tumble / somersault
to brawl; to scuffle
to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
to duel / a duel / decisive struggle
assertiveness / combative nature
war of 1915 against Yuan Shikai and for the Republic
stars
cross-eye
hard fighting / fierce battle
Zi Wei Dou Shu, a form of Chinese fortune-telling
to tumble / to turn a somersault
struggle, criticize, and transform (Cultural Revolution catchcry)
to be warlike / to be belligerent
the Big Dipper / the Plow
fighting strength
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
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
to wrestle
gladiator
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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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variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
lit. the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom) / fig. sth which, despite its name, is of no practical use
Aegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy)
to fight
Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
bullfighting
(idiom) poor people; those who live from hand to mouth
cock-fighting and horse-racing (idiom); to gamble
drawer
an environmental activist / a fighter for environmental protection
while there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last
dogfight (of planes)
lit. measured in cartloads and gallons / fig. by the barrowload (i.e. lots and lots) / innumerable
internal strife / power struggle / (of members of an organization) to fight each other
funnel cloud
internal strife (family, group, etc)
battle of wits
conical bamboo hat
(courteous) to be so bold as to
very small room; tiny, cramped space
person narrow-minded and shortsighted
clothes iron
somersault / fall; tumble / (fig.) setback; failure
will to fight / fighting spirit
HSK 7-9
(Tw) (neologism) (Internet slang) to send money to a live streamer (to get a specific response or just to sponsor) (loanword from "donate")
carrier-based vanguard group (CBVG) / naval battle group led by an aircraft carrier
lit. sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight (idiom) / fig. watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted

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