Chinese symbol for “flamethrower”
喷火器
pēn huǒ qì
Traditional: 噴火器
flamethrower
The closest CC-CEDICT match for flamethrower is 喷火器 (pēn huǒ qì), defined as: flamethrower.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “flamethrower”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 喷火器.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 喷射 (噴射) | pēn shè | to spurt; to spray; to jet; spurt; spray; jet |
| 喷发 (噴發) | pēn fā | to erupt; an eruption |
| 喷泉 (噴泉) | pēn quán | fountain |
| 喷雾 (噴霧) | pēn wù | mist spray; atomizing |
| 喷出 (噴出) | pēn chū | spout; spray |
| 喷气 (噴氣) | pēn qì | to spurt steam (or air etc) |
| 火车 (火車) | huǒ chē | train; measure word: 列 (liè), 节 (jié), 班 (bān), 趟 (tàng) |
| 火箭 | huǒ jiàn | rocket; measure word: 枚 (méi) |
| 武器 | wǔ qì | weapon; arms |
See also: Japanese symbol for “flamethrower”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.