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Kanji Detail for 砲 - "cannon, gun"

砲

  • Meaning

    砲 means "cannon, gun." Also associated with catapult.

    1. Catapult - A weapon that launches stones.

    2. Cannon - A weapon that fires projectiles using gunpowder. Example

  • Words using 砲

    • 発砲 はっぽう Listen firing; discharge of gun
    • 砲撃 ほうげき Listen bombarding; shelling; bombardment
    • 主砲 しゅほう Listen main battery; main armament; best hitter
    • 砲弾 ほうだん Listen shell; cannonball
    • 大砲 たいほう Listen (large) gun; cannon; artillery
    • 空砲 くうほう Listen empty gun; gun loaded with blanks; firing a blank
    • 砲火 ほうか Listen gunfire; fire
    • 迫撃砲 はくげきほう Listen mortar

  • Four-character idioms with 砲

    • 十字砲火 じゅうじほうか Listen cross fire
    • 砲煙弾雨 ほうえんだんう Listen the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells

  • Tattoo check: 砲

    • Verified meaning: cannon, gun
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: catapult

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    cannon; gun

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    gun, cannon

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 炮[pao4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    gun, cannon

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hoh(ホウ) ホウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    石 (ishi・ishihen)

  • Related Keywords

    cannon catapult artillery gun firearm mortar weapon shell projectile musket tank bombardment fire

Sentences including 砲

  • The police officer fired a blank.

  • He is a daredevil.

  • He fired a shot at random.

  • The enemy answered our fire.

  • Let them all come.

  • The cannon went off by accident.

  • He had a shot at the goose.

  • They were exposed to the enemy's gunfire.

  • He fired but missed.

  • The captain gave orders for a salute to be fired.

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