HSK 6 · Verbs

搏斗 bódòu “to fight” in Chinese

Traditional 搏鬥

What 搏斗 means

  1. to fight
  2. to struggle
  3. to wrestle

How to say 搏斗

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale搏bó2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale斗dòu4th tone, falling

搏斗 in a sentence

  1. 渔民们在海上跟大风大浪搏斗。

    Yúmínmen zài hǎishàng gēn dàfēng dàlàng bódòu.

    The fishermen battled the wind and waves at sea.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 他和一条大鱼搏斗了半个小时。

    Tā hé yì tiáo dà yú bódòu le bàn ge xiǎoshí.

    He wrestled with a big fish for half an hour.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 搏斗 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 搏 (bó) with each of its parts in a different colour
搏bóto fight
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 尃to announce · fūSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 尃 (fū) hints at the sound. Compare it with bó.

The character 斗 (dòu) drawn as one shape
斗dòuto fight

斗 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 搏斗

搏 13 strokes · 斗 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

搏斗 (bódòu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 搏斗 (bódòu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 搏斗

Words with 搏

脉搏màibó · pulse拼搏pīnbó · to struggle hard

Words with 斗

奋斗fèndòu · to strive泰斗tàidǒu · leading authority斗争dòuzhēng · struggle战斗zhàndòu · to fight

More words: Common Verbs

并列bìngliè · to stand side by side濒临bīnlín · to be on the verge of逼迫bīpò · to force拨bō · to dial补救bǔjiù · to remedy部署bùshǔ · to deploy布置bùzhì · to arrange捕捉bǔzhuō · to catch

FAQs

搏斗 (bódòu) means “to fight” or “to struggle”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bódòu: bó with a 2nd tone, then dòu with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 搏斗 is written 搏鬥. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bodou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 搏斗 from the suggestions. Typing bodou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
搏斗 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.