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HSK
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
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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
to engage (in a fight)
mixed martial arts (MMA)
to wrestle
to wrestle; to fight; to struggle
HSK 7-9
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
small open trailer
abbr. for 泰山北斗
HSK 7-9
(idiom) of great talent
cattle feeder / hopper (wicker basket)
clothes iron
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
fight between powerful contenders
(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
tumble / somersault
to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
to duel / a duel / decisive struggle
stars
hard fighting / fierce battle
to tumble / to turn a somersault
to be warlike / to be belligerent
to wrestle
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
variant of 鬭|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
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
to fight
drawer
dogfight (of planes)
internal strife / power struggle / (of members of an organization) to fight each other
internal strife (family, group, etc)
clothes iron
somersault / fall; tumble / (fig.) setback; failure
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
(a container) carried suspended or underslung / cable car bucket
to worship the astral deities (idiom, refers to Daoist astrology)
to fight
to turn a somersault
to have a fist fight / fist fight / brawl
(geology) cirque
a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
(smoking) pipe
round-bottomed basket
open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads / dump box (of a dump truck) / bucket (of a front loader) / wheelbarrow
lit. Mount Tai and the Big Dipper (idiom) / fig. an outstanding figure in one's field
abbr. for 泰山北斗
to suffer censure / denounced
funnel
backward somersault
weak and inept person / hopeless case
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
round-bottomed wicker basket
sidecar
cartwheel
to turn cartwheels
tadpole / also written 蝌蚪
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  *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 fight or argue on a blogging site (netspeak)
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
decaliter
dustpan
bailing bucket (tool for irrigating fields) / protruding lower jaw
urinal
to tumble / to fall head over heels / (fig.) to take a tumble
to fight alone (idiom)
carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
variant of 筋斗
variant of 煙斗|烟斗


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