炮 · pào
large gun, cannon; artillery
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
large gun, cannon; artillery
- Mandarin
- pào
- Cantonese
- paau3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 炮 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 포
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+70AE
- Radical
- 火 · 86
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 炮
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 包 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 包聲
Line 3237 · ⿰火包 · 包聲 · source reference 3820480
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- baew · 薄交 反切 · #701
- Middle Chinese
- phaewH · 匹皃 反切 · #2795
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 5670 · baew = 效開二平肴並 · phaewH = 效開二去肴滂
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- pào
- kCantonese
- paau3
- kDefinition
- large gun, cannon; artillery
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 86.5
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:1658
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- páo,pào,bāo 32196.120
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bāo 0037.010 · páo 0856.030 · pào 0858.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bāo 012.050 · páo 277.030 · pào 277.090
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- pào(182)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- páo粵paau4 bāo粵baau3 pào粵paau3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 薄交 匹皃
- Kangxi positions
- 0668.250
- Guangyun positions
- 154.22 416.17
- GSR references
- 1113g
- Cangjie
- FPRU
- Four-corner
- 9781.2