炮 is also the simplified spelling of 砲.
炮
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- 炮
- pào · large gun, cannon; artillery
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Mandarin tones
1 · bao1
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Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.
Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 12 senses · 4 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
baau1 · baau3 · paau3 · paau4
Cantonese word readings for 炮. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- large gun; cannon; artillery
- firecracker
- (Cantonese, colloquial) gun (Classifier: 支 c; 條／条 c; 轆／辘 c)
- (xiangqi) cannon: 🩥 (on the red side)
- (Quanzhou Hokkien) to talk big
- (Xiang) ten (used as a measure)
character · Etymology 2
- (historical) to wrap hirsute meat with mud and roast it on fire
- (by extension) to roast; to burn
- (traditional Chinese medicine) to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 庖 (páo, “chef”)
character · Etymology 3
- (cooking) to quick-fry (meat); to sauté
- to dry by heat
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