炮
3 readings · tap one to hear it
cannon; CL:座[zuo4]; firecracker
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 火 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 炮
- Common rank
- #857
- Unicode
- U+70AE
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 炮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一炮而红 | to win instant success (idiom); to become an instant hit | |
| 八二三炮战 | bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second … | |
| 水炮车 | 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 | lit. to follow the recipe (idiom); fig. to follow a set pattern | |
| 放马后炮 | to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective | |
| 分手炮 | (slang) breakup sex | |
| 炮火连天 | cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war | |
| 开门炮 | firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition) | |
| 马后炮 | (Chinese chess) moving the cannon after moving the horse away; (fig.) a useless action or … | |
| 马后炮 | variant of 馬後炮|马后炮[ma3 hou4 pao4] | |
| 无后坐力炮 | recoilless rifle | |
| 机关炮 | machine cannon; machine-gun cannon | |
| 放大炮 | to talk big; to shoot one's mouth off | |
| 子母炮弹 | artillery cluster bomb | |
| 放空炮 | (lit.) to fire blank shots; (fig.) to be all talk and no action; to shoot one's mouth off;… | |
| 高射炮 | anti-aircraft gun | |
| 大炮 | big gun; cannon; artillery; one who talks big; CL:門|门[men2],尊[zun1] | |
| 山炮 | mountain gun (portable artillery piece used in mountainous terrain); (dialect) bumpkin; si… | |
| 水炮 | water cannon | |
| 炮儿局 | police station (Beijing slang) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 包 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 包 sound part | wrap, pack, bundle; package | |
| 胞 | womb, placenta, fetal membrane | |
| 跑 | to run, to flee, to escape | |
| 泡 | bubble, blister; swollen, puffed up | |
| 饱 | satisfied; to eat one's fill | |
| 刨 | carpenter's plane; plane, level | |
| 孢 | spore | |
| 疱 | acne | |
| 鲍 | abalone; dried fish; surname | |
| 雹 | hail | |
| 庖 | kitchen; cooking, cuisine | |
| 狍 | a species of deer found in northern China | |
| 咆 | to roar | |
| 龅 | buck teeth | |
| 匏 | gourd; musical instrument |