Radical 68
Radical 68 with the meaning " bushel " is one of the traditional 34 radicals of Chinese writing, which consist of four strokes.
With eight combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary it takes a very low frequency.
In the People's Republic of China斗is used as an abbreviation instead of radical斗191.
In the composite sign斗( dou ) acts sometimes as a sound carrier, for example in蝌蚪( kedou = tadpole ).
As a symbol carrier provides斗characters in the semantic field of gauging how in料( = material, originally, the two points of rice grains in a bushel ) ,斜( = wrong; originally: Pick a bushel ) ,斛( = ten times the amount of a斗) 戽( = with a bucket draw ) ,魁( = leader: originally a large soup spoon ).
Character connections that are ruled by the radical 68
In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 68 of the Code Point number 12,099 (U 2 F43 ).