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枪

qiāng

gun, spear

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 仓 represents the sound. Simplified form of 槍.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

仓 sound component

仓  Sound component

cāng

  

granary

Evolution

枪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
枪 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
枪 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
枪 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

枪 (槍) 

qiāng

spear, lance; gun, rifle; gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; CL:支[zhī],把[bǎ],桿|杆[gǎn],條|条[tiáo],枝[zhī]; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots

枪 (槍) 

Qiāng

surname Qiang

枪 (鎗) 

qiāng

variant of 槍|枪[qiāng]

Most common words with 枪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

枪

gun

开枪

to open fire

手枪

pistol

枪击

to shoot with a gun

枪支

a gun

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 53.7242% of movies

336th most common character in movies

874th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

槍

Unicode

U+67AA


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