闘 — fight, war

たたかう闘 fight

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 18 strokes

U+95D8 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #751 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1757 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

fight
war

word

たたか tataka Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

闘(たたか) う tatakau to fight 闘(たたか) い tatakai battle

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

戦(せん) 闘(とう) sentou battle 闘(とう) 争(そう) tousou struggle 奮(ふん) 闘(とう) funtou hard struggle 格(かく) 闘(とう) kakutou fighting 格(かく) 闘(とう) 技(ぎ) kakutougi martial arts 健(けん) 闘(とう) kentou good fight

Appears in idioms

悪戦苦闘四字熟語

bad, war, suffering, fight

孤軍奮闘四字熟語

orphan, army, stirred up, fight

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

もん門 gate #169

まめ豆 beans #151

すん寸 inch #41

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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.

#169 門 gate