斗, a pictographic character of a wine ladle, serves as a semantic as well as a phonetic component to form characters.
In modern Chinese斗means:
1.a fight
2.to contend; to compete with
3.to pieces fit together
4.a unit of dry measure equal to 1 decaliter
5.a dipper-like bin measuring 1 “dou”
6.an object resembling a dipper or cup
斗 serves as a semantic component to express meanings related to cup, dipper, ladle, or measuring equipment, etc.
Characters formed by the semantic component 斗
科 料 斢 斜 戽 斞 斝 魁 斛 斟 kē liào tiǎo xié hù yǔ jiǎ kuí hú zhēn
| 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 | 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 |
| 4 | 斗 | dòu,dǒu | 7 | 斘 | shēng |
| 10 | 料 | liào | 10 | 斚 | jiǎ |
| 11 | 斛 | hú | 11 | 斜 | xié |
| 12 | 斝 | jiǎ | 12 | 斞 | yǔ |
| 13 | 斟 | zhēn | 14 | 斡 | wò |
| 14 | 斠 | jiào | 15 | 斢 | tiǎo |
| 17 | 斣 | dòu |
Characters formed by the phonetic component 斗
抖 蚪 枓 唞 阧 钭 乧 with the same pronunciation dǒu