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to fight / to engage in combat / struggle / battle / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
to strive; to struggle
HSK 4
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
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  *鬥* | 鬥* | *鬥
to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together
HSK 7-9
will to fight / fighting spirit
HSK 7-9
to struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
to wrestle; to fight; to struggle
HSK 7-9
abbr. for 泰山北斗
HSK 7-9
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  *鬦* | 鬦* | *鬦
variant of 鬭|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *鬪* | 鬪* | *鬪
variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *鬭* | 鬭* | *鬭
variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
to duel / a duel / decisive struggle
cloak / mantle
Dounan or Tounan town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
lit. two tigers fight (idiom) / fig. a dispute between two powerful adversaries; a battle of the giants
Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
warrior / activist
clothes iron
Douliu or Touliu city in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
to wrestle
fighting strength
funnel
to fight
to be warlike / to be belligerent
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星
fighter (aircraft)
to struggle / to fight / struggle
battle of wits
Zi Wei Dou Shu, a form of Chinese fortune-telling
(idiom) poor people; those who live from hand to mouth
to have a grudge against
Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 斗轉星移|斗转星移
matador / toreador / bullfighter
to brawl; to scuffle
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
to quarrel / to bicker / glib repartee
to fight alone (idiom)
Doumen District of Zhuhai City 珠海市, Guangdong
power struggle
to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution)
hard fighting / fierce battle
gladiator
having high fighting spirit
lit. sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight (idiom) / fig. watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted
lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 星移斗轉|星移斗转
cock fighting
huge
hopper car / wheelbarrow
a cornered beast will still fight (idiom) / to fight like an animal at bay
fight between powerful contenders
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
internal strife (family, group, etc)
class struggle
to have a fist fight / fist fight / brawl
cross-eye
to tumble / to turn a somersault
bailing bucket (tool for irrigating fields) / protruding lower jaw
Sun Wukong's magical cloud
open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads / dump box (of a dump truck) / bucket (of a front loader) / wheelbarrow
battleship
the Big Dipper / the Plow
to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
handle of the Big Dipper
lit. measured in cartloads and gallons / fig. by the barrowload (i.e. lots and lots) / innumerable
(geology) cirque
(astronomy) Big Dipper
fighting ship
armed confrontation / bust-up between gangs
to turn a somersault
you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
A-dou, nickname of Liu Shan 劉禪|刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / (fig.) weak and inept person
a small-minded person / a bean-counter
tadpole / also written 蝌蚪
assertiveness / combative nature
Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement) / Way of the Celestial Master
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
to worship the astral deities (idiom, refers to Daoist astrology)
dustpan
liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff
to wrestle
boxing
chest of drawers
(smoking) pipe
to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
(a container) carried suspended or underslung / cable car bucket
an ancient bamboo container / narrow-mindedness
carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
(idiom) of great talent
conical bamboo hat
(courteous) to be so bold as to
to suffer censure / denounced
decaliter
fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan)
round-bottomed wicker basket
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
very small room; tiny, cramped space

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