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炮

炮

See also: 砲

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad. 炮/砲
simp. 炮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 炮
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (勹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
袍 *buː
袌 *buː, *buːs
軳 *buː
抱 *buːʔ
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
菢 *buːs
勹 *pruː
包 *pruː
胞 *pruː, *pʰruː
苞 *pruː
枹 *pruː, *bu, *bu
飽 *pruːʔ
泡 *pʰruː, *m̥ʰruːs, *bruː
炮 *pʰruːs, *bruː
皰 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
疱 *pʰruːs, *bruːs
跑 *bruː, *bruːɡ
咆 *bruː
庖 *bruː
匏 *bruː
刨 *bruː
狍 *bruː
炰 *bruː
鉋 *bruː, *bruːs
瓟 *bruː, *bruːɡ
颮 *bruː, *pʰruːɡ
鞄 *bruː, *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *pʰruːɡ
鮑 *bruːʔ
骲 *bruːʔ, *bruːs, *bruːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
玸 *bu
雹 *bruːɡ
窇 *bruːɡ

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

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 炮
Mandarin Beijing /pʰɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /pʰau⁵³/
Tianjin /pʰɑu⁵³/
Jinan /pʰɔ²¹/
Qingdao /pʰɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /pʰau³¹²/
Xi'an /pʰau⁴⁴/
Xining /pʰɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /pʰɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /pʰɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /pʰɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /pʰau³⁵/
Chengdu /pʰau¹³/
Guiyang /pʰao²¹³/
Kunming /pʰɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /pʰɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /pʰɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /pʰau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /pʰɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /pʰɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /pʰɔ³⁵/
Suzhou /pʰæ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /pʰɔ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /pʰuɔ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /pʰɔ³²⁴/
/pʰo³²⁴/
Tunxi /pʰo⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /pʰau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /pʰaɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /pʰɑu²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /pʰau⁵³/
Taoyuan /pʰɑu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pʰau³³/
Nanning /pʰau³³/
Hong Kong /pʰau³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pʰau²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pʰɑu²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pʰau³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pʰau²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fau³⁵/
Rime
Character 炮 炮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 肴 (90) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 薄交切 匹皃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠau/ /pʰˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚau/ /pʰᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bau/ /pʰauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /baɨw/ /pʰaɨwH/
Li
Rong		 /bau/ /pʰauH/
Wang
Li		 /bau/ /pʰauH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱau/ /pʰauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 páo pào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 炮 炮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 280 286
Phonetic
component		 勹 勹
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 奅 庖
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰruːs/ /*bruː/

Definitions

炮

  1. large gun; cannon
  2. artillery

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

炮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. sear
  2. roast, burn

Readings

Korean

Hanja

炮 • ‎(po) (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o, Yale pho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

炮 (pháo, than, bác, bào)

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