斗
Definition
dǒu:* 中国市制容量单位（十升为一斗，十斗为一石） ～酒只鸡（经常用作招待客人的简单酒食，家常便饭）。 * 量粮食的器具。 ～筲之人（形容人器量狭小，见识短浅）。 * 形容事物之大。 ～胆。 * 形容事物之小。 ～室。 * 像斗的东西。 ～车。～笠。～篷。熨～。 * 星名，二十八宿之一，亦泛指星。 南～。气冲～牛（怒气冲天）。 * 圆形的指纹。 ～箕。～纹。 * 古同"陡"，高耸的样子。 * 〔斗拱〕（枓栱）拱是建筑上弧形承重结构，斗是垫拱的方木块，合称斗拱。 * 古同"陡"，突然。 dòu:* 对打。 ～殴。战～。 * 比赛胜负，争胜。 ～力。～劲。～智。～志昂扬。 * 使动物之间互争高下。 ～牛。～蟋蟀。 * 拼合，对准，凑近。 ～眼。 * 古同"逗"，逗引
Chinese peck; liquid measure
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.Wikipedia ->
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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