The kanji 闘: meaning, readings and stroke order

闘

Meaning: fight
On reading: トウ tou
Kun reading: たたか（う） tatakau
Strokes: 18
Radical: 門 gate
Level: Level 7 · junior high school
Old form: 鬪

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: chiến đấu (đấu)
Japanese: たたかう。
Korean: 싸우다 (투)
Chinese: 战斗、斗争 (斗)

Readings, words and example sentences

トウ tou · on reading

戦せん闘とう
battle, fighting
映画に 戦せん闘とうの場面があります。
The movie has a battle scene.

たたか（う） tatakau · kun reading

闘たたかう
to fight, to struggle
さいごまで 闘たたかいます。
I will fight to the very end.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.