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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炮* | 炮* | *炮
cannon / CL: / firecracker
HSK 6
firecrackers / string of small firecrackers / CL:
HSK 7-9
(idiom) flustered / confused
gun salute (e.g. 21-gun salute) / salvo
rocket artillery
big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL: 門|门,
subwoofer
(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
water cannon
machine cannon / machine-gun cannon
to fire a salvo / broadside / cannonade
cannon / gun / artillery
anti-aircraft gun
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
to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective
to talk big / to shoot one's mouth off
cannon / gun / artillery
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
(slang) effeminate man / sissy / effeminate
to set off firecrackers
barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech)
howitzer
bird shotgun replaced by cannon (idiom); equipment improved enormously
recoilless rifle
(lit.) to fire blank shots / (fig.) to be all talk and no action / to shoot one's mouth off / to make empty promises
firecracker
mountain gun (portable artillery piece used in mountainous terrain) / (dialect) bumpkin; simpleton; idiot
heavy artillery
(loanword) cannon
firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition)
field artillery
(Northeastern dialect) simple-minded person
camera (jocular)
(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)
catapult / ballista (siege catapult firing stone blocks)
(slang) to hook up for a one night stand / booty call
Western (or Western-style) cannon of the Ming era
(slang) breakup sex
(fig.) opening shot
(Internet slang) to mouth off / to shoot one's mouth off / sb who does that
firearm
mortar (weapon) / Taiwan pr. [po4 ji2 pao4]
to open fire
railgun
a short-barreled mortar / an ancient catapult
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *砲* | 砲* | *砲
variant of
HSK 6
cannon used for signaling / signaling shot
HSK 7-9


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