斗拱

斗拱 in English

dǒu gǒng: interlocking wooden brackets between the top of a column and crossbeams used in traditional Chinese architecture

Character breakdown

斗 dǒu dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[she…
拱 gǒng to cup one's hands in salute

Stroke order

Le caractère 斗 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 斗

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

斗

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

拱

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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