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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炮* | 炮* | *炮
cannon / CL: / firecracker
HSK 6
gunship (aircraft)
firecrackers / string of small firecrackers / CL:
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try
rocket artillery
big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL: 門|门,
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / fig. to follow a set pattern
to win instant success (idiom) / to become an instant hit
artillery soldier / gunner
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
cannon fire to hit a mosquito / to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
to concoct / to invent / to fabricate / to produce / to process / processing and curing (Chinese medicine)
fort / battery
artillery bombardment; artillery battle
subwoofer
cannon fodder
firearm
artillery barrage / gunfire
(idiom) flustered / confused
water cannon
to bombard / to bomb / (fig.) to criticize / to roast
(slang) to hook up for a one night stand / booty call
firecracker
gunmetal gray
(loanword) cannon
to fire a salvo / broadside / cannonade
cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
to open fire
(Chinese chess) moving the cannon after moving the horse away / (fig.) a useless action or comment; sth done after it's too late
HSK 7-9
anti-aircraft gun
Western (or Western-style) cannon of the Ming era
Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860)
gun turret
to open fire with artillery / to set off firecrackers / to make one's stage debut / (slang) to have sex / to masturbate
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炮* | 炮* | *炮
to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炮* | 炮* | *炮
to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)
to butt in / to interfere / to make things difficult
(slang) to have sex outdoors or in a public place
(coll.) piece of light artillery such as a mortar / (fig.) person who speaks boldly and frankly / hot hatch (car) / (also used figuratively with various meanings in other contexts)
to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective
cannon used for signaling / signaling shot
bird shotgun replaced by cannon (idiom); equipment improved enormously
to talk big / to shoot one's mouth off
gunship (aircraft)
cannon / gun / artillery
cannon / gun / artillery
gunboat
(slang) effeminate man / sissy / effeminate
to set off firecrackers
fuck buddy / friend with benefits
mortar (weapon) / Taiwan pr. [po4 ji2 pao4]
to shell / to bombard / bombardment
gunship
to shell / to bombard / bombardment
gunboat / gunship
bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech)
(lit.) to fire blank shots / (fig.) to be all talk and no action / to shoot one's mouth off / to make empty promises
shell crater; shell hole
firecracker
Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860)
mountain gun (portable artillery piece used in mountainous terrain) / (dialect) bumpkin; simpleton; idiot
firecracker
artillery shell / CL:
water cannon vehicle, common name for specialized crowd management vehicle 人群管理特別用途車|人群管理特别用途车
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences
field artillery
artillery cluster bomb
trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot
heavy artillery
(Northeastern dialect) simple-minded person
machine cannon / machine-gun cannon
gunner / artillery crew
firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition)
catapult / ballista (siege catapult firing stone blocks)
howitzer
form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire
gun salute (e.g. 21-gun salute) / salvo
camera (jocular)
a drill / a hammer drill for boring through rock / same as 釺子|钎子
to parch and refine medicinal herbs
Salyut (salute), Russian spacecraft series
to execute sb by cannon
(slang) breakup sex
police station (Beijing slang)
(fig.) opening shot
(Internet slang) to mouth off / to shoot one's mouth off / sb who does that
recoilless rifle
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炮* | 炮* | *炮
variant of
HSK 6
gunmetal (alloy of copper, tin and zinc)
railgun
sound of gunfire / fig. news of momentous events
variant of 炮轟|炮轰
Pao Chui (Chinese martial art)
HSK 7-9
a short-barreled mortar / an ancient catapult


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