Chinese symbol for “gunpowder”
火药
huǒ yào
Traditional: 火藥
gunpowder
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gunpowder is 火药 (huǒ yào), defined as: gunpowder.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 火药.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 火车站 (火車站) | huǒ chē zhàn | train station |
| 火灾 (火災) | huǒ zāi | serious fire (in a city or a forest etc) |
| 火山 | huǒ shān | volcano |
| 大火 | dà huǒ | conflagration; large fire; 场 (cháng) |
| 药物 (藥物) | yào wù | medicaments; pharmaceuticals |
| 药品 (藥品) | yào pǐn | medicaments; medicine |
See also: Japanese symbol for “gunpowder”.
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.