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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
bāo - to sauté
- to fry
- to dry by heating
páo - to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)
pào - cannon
- CL:座[zuo4]
- firecracker
pào - variant of 炮[pao4]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 6 6,148 5,034 4,483

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Fire

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 6 6,148 5,034 4,483
大炮 - - 8,319 14,654 15,126
炮弹 - - 8,842 12,023 24,697
迫击炮 - - 13,532 25,932 71,293
开炮 - - 14,461 36,207 33,631
炮火 - - 18,582 18,359 40,943
枪炮 - - 19,844 37,703 27,144
火炮 - - 22,206 15,514 32,538
炮手 - - 22,389 45,074 66,683
炮兵 - - 22,414 15,446 34,096
鞭炮 5 9 23,141 10,912 6,060
炮塔 - - 24,104 40,257 57,882
炮轰 - - 24,553 22,859 21,092
炮击 - - 25,422 26,141 57,598
马后炮 - 9 25,468 62,963 36,077
高射炮 - - 25,613 48,588 76,807
加农炮 - - 26,694 72,476 48,096
火箭炮 - - 27,782 51,091 50,824
炮灰 - - 28,462 35,102 19,245
打炮 - - 31,039 56,639 28,603
炮台 - - 33,923 31,018 39,828
炮制 - - 35,570 21,001 29,779
重炮 - - 36,821 44,480 66,858
如法炮制 - - 39,909 50,834 48,488
炮艇 - - 40,376 60,843 116,126
榴弹炮 - - 41,851 51,467 80,181
礼炮 - - 46,073 36,823 36,621
连珠炮 - - 59,096 66,999 74,239
放空炮 - - 60,286 - 89,651
鸟枪换炮 - - 67,382 98,860 73,592
排炮 - - 68,281 - -
糖衣炮弹 - - 68,691 59,870 -
炮仗 - - 75,604 47,859 22,153
炮舰 - - 75,730 68,487 106,320