Radical 68

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.

Radical 68 (U+2F43)
(U+6597) "dipper"
Pinyin:dǒu
Bopomofo:ㄉㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:tou3
Cantonese Yale:dáu
Jyutping:dau2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:tó͘ (lit.), táu (col.)
Kana:ト-, ます tou, masu
Kanji:斗 tomasu
Hangul:말 mal
Sino-Korean:두 du
Stroke order animation

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

Characters with Radical 68

strokescharacter
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.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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