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炮

pào, bāo, páo

large gun, cannon

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 包 represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

火  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

包 sound component

包  Sound component

bāo

  

wrap

Evolution

炮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
炮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

炮  

pào

large gun, cannon; artillery; cannon; CL:座[zuò]; firecracker

炮  

bāo

to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating

炮  

páo

to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)

炮 (砲) 

pào

variant of 炮[pào]

Most common words with 炮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

炮

cannon

炮弹

artillery shell

大炮

big gun

鞭炮

firecrackers

迫击炮

mortar (weapon)

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 7.9769% of movies

1823rd most common character in movies

914th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+70AE

Shuowen

“炮，毛炙肉也。从火，包聲。”


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