The Chinese Radical: 斗


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Meaning
dipper    斗

Explanation As spoon or ladle also 匕 and 勺 are used.

Used in these characters:
料
JLPT HSK 3
feed, material, to expect, to anticipate
liào
米 斗
Left: rice 米, right: measure of volume 斗(1 Dou = 10 l; stylized ladle with sth. in it)
Rice of a dou is measured: as feed.  
科
JLPT HSK 4
branch of study, division, rules, laws
kē
禾 斗
Left: rice plant 禾, right: measure of volume 斗 (1 Dou = 10 l; stylized ladle with sth. in it)
How rice plants are measured is taught in this branch of study.  
抖
JLPT HSK 5
to tremble, to shake out, to reveal
dǒu
扌 斗
Left: hand 扌, right: measure of volume 斗 (stylized ladle (1 dǒu = 10 l) with sth. in it)
As the hand hold the (heavy) ladle, it began to tremble.  
斜
JLPT HSK 5
inclined, slanting, oblique, tilting
xié
余 斗
Left: excess/rest 余 (A heap is still on the altar 示 [= to show], thus in excess.), right: measure of volume (1 Dou= 18 l), stylized ladle with sth. on it)
An 'excess' in the ladle makes it: inclined.  
斗
JLPT HSK 5
to fight, struggle, condemn, volume 1 Dou = 10 l
dǒu, dòu
斗
Stylized ladle with sth. in it
For the ladle they had a fight.  
斟
JLPT HSK 6
pour, to consider, to deliberate
zhēn
斗 甚 匹
Left extraordinary 甚 (A grain shovel 其 with an extra angle is very extraordinary), right: measure of volume 斗(1 Dou = 10 l; stylized ladle with sth. in it)
With the extraordinary ladle to pour sth. in.  
魁
JLPT no HSK
chief, head, outstanding, exceptional, stalwart
kuí
鬼 斗
Left: devil, demon 鬼, right: measure of volume 斗(1 Dou = 10 l; stylized ladle with sth. in it)
He is (strict) like a devil, but also distributes with a ladle: The chief.  

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