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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *门* | 门* | *门
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
HSK 1
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  *挺* | 挺* | *挺
straight / erect / to stick out (a part of the body) / to (physically) straighten up / to support / to withstand / outstanding / (coll.) quite / very / classifier for machine guns
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
to support / to sustain / to erect / to raise / branch / division / to draw money / classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *滚* | 滚* | *滚
to boil / to roll / to take a hike / Get lost!
HSK 5
to shoot; to fire (a gun)
HSK 5
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  *枪* | 枪* | *枪
gun / firearm / rifle / spear / thing with shape or function similar to a gun / CL: , , 桿|杆, 條|条, / to substitute for another person in a test / to knock / classifier for rifle shots
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杆* | 杆* | *杆
stick / pole / lever / classifier for long objects such as guns
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棍* | 棍* | *棍
stick; rod; truncheon / scoundrel; villain
HSK 7-9
to open fire / to shoot a gun
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *□* | □* | *□
(onom.) pew! (sound of a bullet fired from a gun) / also pr. [biu4]
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丨* | 丨* | *丨
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
to carry a gun
(of a gun) to explode; to blow up
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辊* | 辊* | *辊
roller
butt of a gun / stock
to shoot with a gun / shooting incident
big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL: 門|门,
a gun / guns in general
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蔉* | 蔉* | *蔉
to bank up the roots of plants
spray gun
gun turret
smoke (from guns)
to rake with machine gunfire / to strafe / to machine-gun down
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *栓* | 栓* | *栓
bottle stopper / plug / (gun) bolt / (grenade) pin
recoil (of a gun) / backlash
muzzle of a gun
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *铳* | 铳* | *铳
ancient firearm / gun
to shoot dead (with a gun, or bow and arrow)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *衮* | 衮* | *衮
imperial robe
water pistol (toy) / water gun / sprinkler / water cannon
machine gun
gun battle / firefight
bolt of gun
gun salute (e.g. 21-gun salute) / salvo
gun barrel
big shot / top gun / superstar / VIP
to jump the gun / to make a false start
Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *呯* | 呯* | *呯
(onom.) bang! (gong, gun firing etc)
cannon / gun / artillery
cannon / gun / artillery
machine gun / also written 機槍|机枪
an air gun
gun barrel
to fire a gun / to substitute for sb in sitting an examination
(gun) trigger
roof of the mouth / to load a gun
hunting gun / shotgun
western style guns (in former times)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鲧* | 鲧* | *鲧
Gun, mythical father of Yu the Great 大禹
flintlock musket / fowling piece (shotgun) / air gun
request granted (formal usage in old document) / to aim (gun)
rifling (helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *绲* | 绲* | *绲
cord / embroidered sash / to sew
gun bolt
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磙* | 磙* | *磙
roller / to level with a roller
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鲧* | 鲧* | *鲧
variant of 鯀|鲧
to sneak off; to slip away / (sports) to jump the gun; to make a false start / (fig.) to jump the gun; to start doing sth before it's allowed / (of a movie, game etc) to be leaked before the official release
bird gun
caliber (of a gun)
bandits with guns / an armed criminal / a gunman
a gun / guns in general / same as 槍支|枪支
fowling piece (archaic gun)
stun gun / Taser
barrel of a gun
gun cover
toy gun
anti-aircraft gun
submachine gun
heat gun
heavy machine gun
recoil (of a gun) / to bounce back / backlash
to shoot accidentally while polishing a gun / (fig.) a minor incident that sparks a war
to shoot a bird (with a gun, slingshot etc) / to photograph birds
rear sight (of a gun)
also written 重機槍|重机枪 / heavy machine gun
Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun
Maxim machine gun
Bren gun, British light machine gun first produced in 1937
Uzi (submachine gun)
sealant gun / glue gun
to open fire / to shoot a gun
also written 輕機槍|轻机枪 / light machine gun
rivet gun
bipod (supporting a machine gun etc)
to be hit by a gun / shot
rifling (helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun)
bipod (supporting a machine gun etc)
Gatling gun
recoil (of a gun)
nail gun / stud gun
anti-aircraft gun
recoil (of a gun) / backlash / reactive force
butt of a gun
gun barrel
gun barrel
bore of a gun
machine cannon / machine-gun cannon

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