斗

Meaning

斗 centers on a dipper or ladle: a tool for scooping liquids like sake, and by extension a unit of volume (roughly 18 liters). The Big Dipper constellation is named for its dipper-like shape, and the radical sense refers to the same dipper shape used as a component in other characters.

• 斗と

  to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres

• 北斗ほくと

  the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow

• 北斗ほくと

  Hokuto

• 熨斗のし

  noshi; long thin strip of dried abalone in folded patterned paper, attached to a gift

• 漏斗じょうご

  funnel

• 北斗星ほくとせい

  the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow

• 北斗七星ほくとしちせい

  the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow

• 泰斗たいと

  great authority; eminent person; luminary

• １斗缶いっとかん

  eighteen litre drum

• ブフナー漏斗ブフナーろうと

  Buchner funnel

• 一斗いっと

  1 "to" (unit of volume, approx. 18 litres)

• 一斗枡いっとます

  18-litre measuring container

• 五斗味噌ごとみそ

  goto miso (miso from the Kamakura era)

• 五斗米ごとべい

  small salary

• 五斗米道ごとべいどう

  Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters)

• 修斗しゅうと

  shooto; martial arts competition leading to knockouts or submission

• 光熱斗ひかりねっと

  Lan Hikari

• 冬北斗ふゆほくと

  the Big Dipper seen on a winter night

• 冷汗三斗れいかんさんと

  breaking into cold sweat when one is very embarrassed or scared

• 分液漏斗ぶんえきろうと

  separatory funnel; separating funnel

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