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HSK
to strive; to struggle
HSK 4
to fight / to engage in combat / struggle / battle / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together
HSK 7-9
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
variant of 鬭|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
variant of 鬥|斗
HSK 7-9
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
variant of 鬥|斗
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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abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星
warrior / activist
Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
bullfighting
Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
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dry measure for grain equal to ten or one-tenth of a / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of
to fight
cloak / mantle
cattle feeder / hopper (wicker basket)
to wrestle
to wrestle
(smoking) pipe
cock fighting
Doumen District of Zhuhai City 珠海市, Guangdong
to duel / a duel / decisive struggle
tumble / somersault
to have a grudge against
(idiom) of great talent
to quarrel / to bicker / glib repartee
stars
hopper car / wheelbarrow
to fight alone (idiom)
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
funnel
to struggle / to fight / struggle
to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
lit. two tigers fight (idiom) / fig. a dispute between two powerful adversaries; a battle of the giants
conical bamboo hat
to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution)
to brawl; to scuffle
interlocking wooden brackets between the top of a column and crossbeams used in traditional Chinese architecture
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
to be warlike / to be belligerent
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
clothes iron
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
armed confrontation / bust-up between gangs
(courteous) to be so bold as to
having high fighting spirit
carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
somersault / fall; tumble / (fig.) setback; failure
battle of wits
very small room; tiny, cramped space
hard fighting / fierce battle
lit. Mount Tai and the North Star (idiom) / fig. an outstanding figure in one's field
internal strife (family, group, etc)
chest of drawers
clothes iron
to have a fist fight / fist fight / brawl
round-bottomed basket
small open trailer
variant of 煙斗|烟斗
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
dustpan
fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan)
drawer
lit. measured in cartloads and gallons / fig. by the barrowload (i.e. lots and lots) / innumerable
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
to suffer censure / denounced
a cornered beast will still fight (idiom) / to fight like an animal at bay
open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads / dump box (of a dump truck) / bucket (of a front loader) / wheelbarrow
struggle, criticize, and transform (Cultural Revolution catchcry)
dou dizhu ("fight the landlord") (card game)
variant of 筋斗
huge
to fight
Dounan or Tounan town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
sidecar
to engage (in a fight)
the Big Dipper / the Plow
class struggle
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
fighter (aircraft)
gladiator
matador / toreador / bullfighter
bailing bucket (tool for irrigating fields) / protruding lower jaw
liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff
fight between powerful contenders
BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) (similar to GPS)
(geology) cirque
while there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last
Zi Wei Dou Shu, a form of Chinese fortune-telling
abbr. for 泰山北斗
mixed martial arts (MMA)
Chun Doo Hwan (1931-), South Korean politician, president 1980-1988
Douliu or Touliu city in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan

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