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炮

Traditional: 砲

bāo

HSK 3.0 · 6

bāo · paau3 (Jyutping)

  1. to sauté
  2. to fry
  3. to dry by heating

páo · paau3 (Jyutping)

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

pào · paau3 (Jyutping)

  1. cannon
  2. CL:座[zuo4]
  3. firecracker
  4. variant of 炮[pao4]

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

炮

Meaning
large gun, cannon; artillery
Radical
火
Strokes
9
Components
⿰火包
Cangjie
FPRU
Four-corner
9781.2

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