qiāng

rifle

Variant of replacing the component with .

Evolution

鎗 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
鎗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

𬬰 () 

qiāng

rifle, small arms, hand gun

() 

qiāng

variant of |[qiāng]; rifle; spear

Most common words with 鎗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

gun

开枪

to open fire

手枪

pistol

枪击

to shoot with a gun

枪支

a gun

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 53.7242% of movies

336th most common character in movies

874th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+9397

Shuowen

“鎗,鐘聲也。从金,倉聲。”


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