炮
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cannon; CL:座[zuo4]; firecracker
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Dict coverage rank #857 U+70AE
How 炮 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
火 (semantic, “fire”) + 包 (phonetic, bāo)
How to remember it
cannon · Heisig RSH #1746
火 fire + 包 wrap
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 包
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 包 (bāo) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 包 sound component | bāo | wrap, pack, bundle; package |
| 胞 | bāo | womb, placenta, fetal membrane |
| 跑 | pǎo | to run, to flee, to escape |
| 泡 | pào | bubble, blister; swollen, puffed up |
| 饱 | bǎo | satisfied; to eat one's fill |
| 刨 | páo | carpenter's plane; plane, level |
| 孢 | bāo | spore |
| 疱 | pào | acne |
| 鲍 | bào | abalone; dried fish; surname |
| 雹 | báo | hail |
| 庖 | páo | kitchen; cooking, cuisine |
| 狍 | páo | a species of deer found in northern China |
| 咆 | páo | to roar |
| 龅 | bāo | buck teeth |
| 匏 | páo | gourd; musical instrument |
Words containing 炮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一炮而红 | yī pào ér hóng | to win instant success (idiom); to become an instant hit |
| 八二三炮战 | Bā Èr Sān Pào zhàn | bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second … |
| 水炮车 | shuǐ pào chē | water cannon vehicle, common name for specialized crowd management vehicle 人群管理特別用途車|人群管理特… |
| 如法炮制 | rú fǎ páo zhì | lit. to follow the recipe (idiom); fig. to follow a set pattern |
| 放马后炮 | fàng mǎ hòu pào | to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective |
| 分手炮 | fēn shǒu pào | (slang) breakup sex |
| 炮火连天 | pào huǒ lián tiān | cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war |
| 开门炮 | kāi mén pào | firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition) |
| 马后炮 | mǎ hòu pào | (Chinese chess) moving the cannon after moving the horse away; (fig.) a useless action or … |
| 马后炮 | mǎ hòu pào | variant of 馬後炮|马后炮[ma3 hou4 pao4] |
| 无后坐力炮 | wú hòu zuò lì pào | recoilless rifle |
| 机关炮 | jī guān pào | machine cannon; machine-gun cannon |
| 放大炮 | fàng dà pào | to talk big; to shoot one's mouth off |
| 子母炮弹 | zǐ mǔ pào dàn | artillery cluster bomb |
| 放空炮 | fàng kōng pào | (lit.) to fire blank shots; (fig.) to be all talk and no action; to shoot one's mouth off;… |
| 高射炮 | gāo shè pào | anti-aircraft gun |
| 大炮 | dà pào | big gun; cannon; artillery; one who talks big; CL:門|门[men2],尊[zun1] |
| 山炮 | shān pào | mountain gun (portable artillery piece used in mountainous terrain); (dialect) bumpkin; si… |
| 水炮 | shuǐ pào | water cannon |
| 炮儿局 | pào r jú | police station (Beijing slang) |