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HSK
to fight / to engage in combat / struggle / battle / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
to strive; to struggle
HSK 4
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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 struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
to wrestle; to fight; to struggle
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
to duel / a duel / decisive struggle
clothes iron
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星
clothes iron
to wrestle
to fight
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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 be warlike / to be belligerent
to struggle / to fight / struggle
Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
to fight alone (idiom)
hard fighting / fierce battle
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
internal strife (family, group, etc)
to have a fist fight / fist fight / brawl
to tumble / to turn a somersault
bailing bucket (tool for irrigating fields) / protruding lower jaw
open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads / dump box (of a dump truck) / bucket (of a front loader) / wheelbarrow
(geology) cirque
armed confrontation / bust-up between gangs
to turn a somersault
tadpole / also written 蝌蚪
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
to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
(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
carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
(idiom) of great talent
to suffer censure / denounced
decaliter
round-bottomed wicker basket
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
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
stars
lit. Mount Tai and the Big Dipper (idiom) / fig. an outstanding figure in one's field
variant of 煙斗|烟斗
somersault / fall; tumble / (fig.) setback; failure
cattle feeder / hopper (wicker basket)
round-bottomed basket
drawer
internal strife / power struggle / (of members of an organization) to fight each other
variant of 筋斗
funnel
urinal
mixed martial arts (MMA)
small open trailer
sidecar
a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
to fight or argue on a blogging site (netspeak)
a cornered beast will still fight (idiom) / to fight like an animal at bay
abbr. for 泰山北斗
backward somersault
weak and inept person / hopeless case
to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution)
to engage (in a fight)
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
to tumble / to fall head over heels / (fig.) to take a tumble
cartwheel
to turn cartwheels
(smoking) pipe
dogfight (of planes)
tumble / somersault
to fight
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
fight between powerful contenders


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