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Translingual
Han character
闘 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日弓一廿戈 (ANMTI), composition ⿵門𭔰)
- struggle, fight, compete, contend
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1341, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45649
- Dae Jaweon: page 1845, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4312, character 6
- Unihan data for U+95D8
Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 闘 – see 鬥 (“to fight; to struggle; to make animals fight; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 鬪, which is in turn a variant traditional form of 鬥). |
Japanese
Glyph origin
Japanese Simplified from 鬪 (鬥 → 門), itself a simplified variant of 鬭, ultimately Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) , with semantic 鬥 (“fight”) (unrelated to 門).
Phonetic is originally 斲 but this is graphically simplified to 𭔰; compare 尌, which is similar.
Kanji
闘
(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鬪)
Readings
Compounds