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U+70AE, 炮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70AE

[U+70AD]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+70AF]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 86, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火心口山 (FPRU), four-corner 97812, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𪺃, 𬋗, 𬋚

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 668, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18954
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1078, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2196, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+70AE

Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 炮, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰruːs, *bruː): semantic + phonetic (OC *pruː).

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation


Note: phauh - "firecracker".

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. large gun; cannon; artillery
  2. firecracker
  3. (Cantonese, colloquial) gun (Classifier: c;  c;  c)
  4. (xiangqi) cannon: 🩥 (on the red side)
    Synonym: 🩬
  5. (Quanzhou Hokkien) to talk big
Usage notes
  • (Chinese chess): This character is usually only used on the red side, but it may also be used for both sides in some sets. The same piece on the black side is often written as or .
Synonyms
Coordinate terms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ( / ):
  • Japanese: (ほう) ()
  • Korean: 포(砲) (po)
  • Vietnamese: pháo ()

Others:

  • Tuvan: боо (boo)
  • Mongolic:
  • Tungusic:
    • Manchu: ᡦᠣᠣ (poo)
    • Nanai: пао (pao)
    • Orok: пау (pau)
    • Ulch: пау
  • Nivkh: пʼау (pʼau)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. (historical) to wrap hirsute meat with mud and roast it on fire
  2. (by extension) to roast; to burn
  3. (traditional Chinese medicine) to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching
  4. alternative form of (páo, chef)

Compounds

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (cooking) to quick-fry (meat); to sauté
  2. to dry by heat

Compounds

  • 炮羊肚

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “炮(枪~)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 177.
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Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. sear
  2. roast, burn

Readings

Korean

Hanja

(po) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: pháo, than, bác, bào

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