pào

large gun, cannon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

包 sound component

  Sound component

bāo

  

wrap

Definitions

 

pào

gun, cannon

() 

pào

variant of [pào]

Most common words with 砲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

cannon

炮弹

artillery shell

大炮

big gun

鞭炮

firecrackers

迫击炮

mortar (weapon)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.9769% of movies

1823rd most common character in movies

914th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7832


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