Radical 68

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Radical 68 (U+2F43)
(U+6597) "dipper"
Pinyin: dǒu
Bopomofo: ㄉㄡˇ
Wade–Giles: tou3
Jyutping: dau2
Cantonese Yale: dau2
Hiragana: トウ, ます tou, masu
Kanji: 斗 tomasu
Hangul: 말 mal
Sino-Korean: 두 du

Radical 68 meaning "dipper" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes. 市斗, sometimes represented by 斗 alone, is also the symbol for a Chinese traditional measurement of dry volume equaling about 10 liters, which is ~18.16 pints, ~2.27 gallons, ~610.2 cubic inches, or ~0.3531 cubic feet.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 32 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 68

seal script character
strokes character
without additional strokes
3 additional strokes
6 additional strokes 料 斚 斛
7 additional strokes
8 additional strokes
9 additional strokes 斞 斟
10 additional strokes 斠 斡
12 additional strokes
13 additional strokes

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. 
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

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