斗地主

鬥地主

dòudìzhǔ

popculture

Meanings

1 Dou Dizhu ("Fight the Landlord")
2 extremely popular three-player Chinese card game

Characters

to fight; struggle

Examples

我们来斗地主吧!

Wǒmen lái dòu dìzhǔ ba!

Let's play Dou Dizhu!

他在微信上斗地主输了五十块。

Tā zài Wēixìn shàng dòu dìzhǔ shū le wǔ shí kuài.

He lost fifty yuan playing Dou Dizhu on WeChat.

斗地主是中国最流行的扑克游戏之一。

Dòu dìzhǔ shì Zhōngguó zuì liúxíng de pūkè yóuxì zhī yī.

Dou Dizhu is one of the most popular card games in China.

Tips

culture

Played with a standard 54-card deck (including two jokers). One player is 地主 (landlord), the other two are 农民 (farmers) who cooperate against them. Name originated as a joke on the 斗地主 (struggle against landlords) campaigns of the 1950s land reform era.

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Dominant platform is 腾讯欢乐斗地主 (Tencent's Happy Dou Dizhu) and 微信斗地主, making it arguably the most-played card game in Chinese-speaking world. Small-stakes real-money play is common on WeChat despite legal gray area.

In Pop Culture

欢乐斗地主 Huānlè Dòu Dìzhǔ

Happy Dou Dizhu

Tencent's online version, one of the most widely downloaded card game apps in China.

Stroke Order

斗 dòu

地 dì

主 zhǔ