炮 (páo)
firecracker; cannon
How 炮 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 火 — fire
- Traditional
- 炮
- Simplified
- 炮 (unchanged)
Components
- 火 fire
- 勹 wrap
- 巳 oneself
炮 has 3 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- bāo
- to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating
- páo
- to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)
- pào
- cannon; CL:座[zuo4]; firecracker
Common words using 炮
- 鞭砲 biānpào
- firecrackers; a string of small firecrackers; CL:枚[mei2]
- 大砲 dàpào
- big gun; cannon; artillery
- 炮制 pàozhì
- to concoct; to invent; to fabricate
- 炮灰 pàohuī
- cannon fodder
- 鞭砲聲 biānpàoshēng
- sound of firecrackers
- 低音炮 dīyīnpào
- subwoofer
- 加農炮 jiānóngpào
- cannon (loanword)
- 打炮 dǎpào
- to open fire with artillery; to make one's stage debut; (slang) to ejaculate
- 排炮 páipào
- to fire a salvo; broadside; cannonade
- 榴彈炮 liúdànpào
- Howitzer
- 槍砲 qiāngpào
- firearm
- 機關炮 jīguānpào
- machine cannon; machine-gun cannon
炮 in a sentence
過年的時候，大家喜歡放鞭炮慶祝。
Guònián de shíhòu, dàjiā xǐhuān fàng biānpào qìngzhù.
“During Chinese New Year, everyone likes to set off firecrackers to celebrate.”
How common is 炮?
炮 is the 912th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 87.6% of all running text.
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