Radical 68

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

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

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