炮 — Chinese character
炮
pào
cannon, artillery
- Pinyin
- pào
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 火 包
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 包
- Japanese
- 炮 as a kanji
Common words with 炮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大炮 (大砲) | dà pào | big gun; cannon |
| 炮弹 (炮彈) | pào dàn | artillery shell; measure word: 枚 (méi) |
| 火炮 | huǒ pào | cannon; gun |
| 火炮 (火砲) | huǒ pào | cannon; gun |
| 炮击 (炮擊) | pào jī | to shell; to bombard |
| 炮击 (砲擊) | pào jī | to shell; to bombard |
| 炮火 | pào huǒ | artillery barrage; gunfire |
| 炮轰 (炮轟) | pào hōng | to bombard; to bomb |
| 炮轰 (砲轟) | pào hōng | variant of 炮轰 (pào hōng) |
| 炮兵 | pào bīng | artillery soldier; gunner |
| 约炮 (約炮) | yuē pào | (slang) to hook up for sex; to arrange a casual sexual encounter (often with a new or non-committed partner) |
| 炮塔 | pào tǎ | gun turret |
English words written with 炮
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.