炮 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 弾丸を発射して殺傷、破壊する大型の武器。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

burn, roast

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ホウ
Kun (native)
  • あぶ(る)
Other languages
  • 拼音pao4
  • 拼音bao1
  • 拼音pao2
  • 한글po
  • Hán-ViệtPháo
  • Hán-ViệtBào

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
火(ひ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+70AE

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰火包

Words using this kanji

  • 炮製ほうせいprocessing (in Chinese herbal medicine)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(3 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-5
Four Corner
9781.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4d5.4
Nelson
2753