Radical 68 Explained

Uni:6597
Meaning:dipper
Pny:dǒu
Bopo:ㄉㄡˇ
Wade:tou3
Jyutping:dau2
Yale:dáu
Poj:tó͘ (lit.), táu (col.)
Cn:斗字旁 dǒuzìpáng
Onyomi:ト to / トウ tō
Kunyomi:ます masu
Jp:斗/と to
斗/ます masu
とます tomasu
Hang:말 mal
Hanja:두 du

Radical 68 or radical dipper meaning "dipper" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

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

is also the 96th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

shìdǒu, sometimes represented by dǒu 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.

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+3
+6 (=斝)
+7
+8
+9
+10 SC variant
+12 TC variant
+13

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