DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

砲火連天

简炮火连天 · 繁砲火連天

Mandarin · pinyin pào huǒ lián tiān

cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

砲: Look up this written character
火: huǒ · fire, flame; burn; anger, rage
連: Look up this written character
天: tiān · sky, heaven; god, celestial
炮: pào · large gun, cannon; artillery
连: lián · join, connect; continuous; even

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–3–2–1 · pao4 huo3 lian2 tian1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

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.

砲火連天 · find source passages ↗ · 炮火连天 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

paau3 fo2 lin4 tin1

Cantonese word readings for 砲火連天. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack