Hanja Analyzer
炮

炮 — po

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
싸서구울 포
Romanization
po
English
large gun, cannon; artillery
Mandarin
pào
Japanese on'yomi
ホウ, ビョウ, ヒョウ
Japanese kun'yomi
あぶ.る
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
9
Radical
火 (86, 5 residual)
Phonetic component
包(포)
Unicode
U+70AE

Parts that make up 炮

  • 火 불 화 타오르는 불꽃불·열·빛, 태우고 익히는 일. 아래에서 灬 로 쓴다
  • 包 쌀[裹] 포sound 뱃속에 든 아이감싸다. ‘포’ 계열의 소리

How 炮 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 炮 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 火, 包.

Japanese words with 炮

  • 炮製ほうせい processing (in Chinese herbal medicine)
  • 片鉄炮かたてっぽう strong push with only one hand
  • 鉄炮押してっぽうおし pushing against the wooden pole in practice

Characters sharing the phonetic 包

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “포” in Korean.

Other hanja read “포”

Other hanja with radical 火

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