砲

See also: 礮 and 炮

砲 U+7832, 砲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7832 ← 砱 [U+7831] CJK Unified Ideographs 砳 → [U+7833]

Translingual

Han character

砲 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口心口山 (MRPRU), four-corner 1761₂, composition ⿰石包)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 829, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24120
• Dae Jaweon: page 1244, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2425, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7832

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 砲 – see 炮 (“large gun; cannon; artillery; firecracker; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 炮).

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː). It originally referred to the catapult that launches stones far away, and by extension, it came to mean "cannon."

Japanese

Shinjitai	砲
Kyūjitai	砲󠄁 砲+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	砲󠄃 砲+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

砲

(Jōyō kanji)

1. cannon, artillery

Readings

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
• Kun: いしゆみ (ishiyumi, 砲)、つつ (tsutsu, 砲)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
砲
ほう Grade: S
on'yomi

/pau/ → /ɸau/ → /ɸɔː/ → /ɸoː/ → /hoː/

From Middle Chinese 炮 (MC phaewH).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ほー [hóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ho̞ː]

Noun

砲(ほう) • (hō) ^{←はう (fau)?}

1. gun, firearm
2. (by extension) alternative spelling of 大砲 (“cannon, artillery”)

Suffix

砲(ほう) • (-hō) ^{←はう (-fau)?}

1. gun
2. cannon, artillery
3. ordnance

References

• “^△砲”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 炮 (MC phaewH). Recorded as Middle Korean 포〯 (phwǒ) (Yale: phwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

砲 (eumhun 대포 포 (daepo po))

1. hanja form^? of 포 (“cannon”)

Compounds

• 대포 (大砲, daepo)
• 발포 (發砲, balpo)
• 포문 (砲門, pomun)
• 포병 (砲兵, pobyeong)
• 포탄 (砲彈, potan)
• 포화 (砲火, pohwa)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

Vietnamese

Han character

砲: Hán Nôm readings: pháo

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