Hanja Analyzer
砲

砲 — po

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
대포 포
Romanization
po
English
gun, cannon
Mandarin
pào
Japanese on'yomi
ホウ, ホク, ハク, ヒョウ, バク
Japanese kun'yomi
おおづつ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,268 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Radical
石 (112, 5 residual)
Phonetic component
包(포)
Unicode
U+7832

Parts that make up 砲

  • 石 돌 석 벼랑 아래 굴러떨어진 돌돌과 돌로 만든 것
  • 包 쌀[裹] 포sound 뱃속에 든 아이감싸다. ‘포’ 계열의 소리

How 砲 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 砲 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 石, 包.

Korean example words with 砲

  • 포격砲擊 Korean gloss: 대포를 쏨
  • 포화砲火 Korean gloss: 총포를 쏨
  • 포탄砲彈 Korean gloss: 대포의 탄알
  • 발포發砲 Korean gloss: 총이나 포를 쏨
  • 포신砲身 Korean gloss: 포의 몸통 전체
  • 포마砲馬 Korean gloss: 포(砲)를 끄는 말
  • 함포艦砲 Korean gloss: 군함에 장비한 화포
  • 방포放砲 Korean gloss: 포나 총을 대놓고 쏨
  • 오포午砲 Korean gloss: 낮 열두 시를 알리는 대포
  • 포구砲口 Korean gloss: 대포의 탄알이 나가는 구멍
  • 포문砲門 Korean gloss: 대포의 탄알이 나가는 구멍
  • 포성砲聲 Korean gloss: 대포를 쏠 때에 나는 소리

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 砲

  • 発砲はっぽう firing; discharge of gun
  • 砲撃ほうげき bombarding; shelling; bombardment
  • 砲ほう gun; cannon; artillery
  • 主砲しゅほう main battery; main armament; best hitter
  • 砲弾ほうだん shell; cannonball
  • 大砲たいほう (large) gun; cannon; artillery
  • 空砲くうほう empty gun; gun loaded with blanks; firing a blank
  • 鉄砲てっぽう gun; firearm; wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice
  • 砲火ほうか gunfire; fire
  • 迫撃砲はくげきほう mortar
  • 火砲かほう (large) gun; artillery; cannon
  • 砲丸投げほうがんなげ shot put

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 石

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences