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to fight / to engage in combat / struggle / battle / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
to strive; to struggle
HSK 4
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
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  *鬥* | 鬥* | *鬥
to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together
HSK 7-9
to wrestle; to fight; to struggle
HSK 7-9
will to fight / fighting spirit
HSK 7-9
to struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
abbr. for 泰山北斗
HSK 7-9
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  *鬪* | 鬪* | *鬪
variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *鬭* | 鬭* | *鬭
variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *鬦* | 鬦* | *鬦
variant of 鬭|斗
HSK 7-9
gladiator
very small room; tiny, cramped space
fighting strength
lit. a chicken and a bottle of wine (idiom); fig. ready to make an offering to the deceased, or to entertain guests
to duel / a duel / decisive struggle
struggle session
cross-eye
handle of the Big Dipper
cartwheel
clothes iron
Douliu or Touliu city in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
(idiom) to use literary phrases in one's writing to show off one's erudition
to fight or argue on a blogging site (netspeak)
cloak / mantle
an environmental activist / a fighter for environmental protection
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星
to quarrel / to bicker / glib repartee
Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
a small-minded person / a bean-counter
lit. measured in cartloads and gallons / fig. by the barrowload (i.e. lots and lots) / innumerable
stars
warrior / activist
clothes iron
Colosseum (Rome)
to wrestle
to fight
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
dry measure for grain equal to ten or one-tenth of a / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of
to be warlike / to be belligerent
Dounan or Tounan town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
fighter (aircraft)
to struggle / to fight / struggle
battle of wits
Zi Wei Dou Shu, a form of Chinese fortune-telling
(idiom) poor people; those who live from hand to mouth
Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
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
matador / toreador / bullfighter
to brawl; to scuffle
to quarrel / to bicker / glib repartee
to fight alone (idiom)
power struggle
Toreador Song (Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre), famous aria from opera Carmen 卡門|卡门 by Georges Bizet
hard fighting / fierce battle
having high fighting spirit
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
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
cock fighting
huge
hopper car / wheelbarrow
internal strife (family, group, etc)
class struggle
to have a fist fight / fist fight / brawl
to tumble / to turn a somersault
bailing bucket (tool for irrigating fields) / protruding lower jaw
Sun Wukong's magical cloud
open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads / dump box (of a dump truck) / bucket (of a front loader) / wheelbarrow
battleship
to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
variant of 煙斗|烟斗
(geology) cirque
(astronomy) Big Dipper
fighting ship
armed confrontation / bust-up between gangs
to turn a somersault
you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
assertiveness / combative nature
Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement) / Way of the Celestial Master
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
to worship the astral deities (idiom, refers to Daoist astrology)
dustpan
liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff
to wrestle
boxing
to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
chest of drawers
(a container) carried suspended or underslung / cable car bucket
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
an ancient bamboo container / narrow-mindedness
carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
(idiom) of great talent
conical bamboo hat
(courteous) to be so bold as to
to suffer censure / denounced
decaliter

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