斗 — dipper, ladle, to (unit of volume) | MojiMori

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と斗 dipper

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 4 strokes

U+6597 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1885 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1261 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #68

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Meanings

dipper
ladle
to (unit of volume)
Big Dipper (constellation)

Readings

On'yomi: と to

word

と to On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

斗(と) to dipper

Appears in idioms

北斗七星四字熟語

north dipper, seven stars

Stroke order

1
2
3
4

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Atomic component This kanji has no further breakdown — it's a primitive building block used to compose others.

Used as component in (3)

か科 department りょう料 fee しゃ斜 diagonal

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.