Memory phrase for the Kanji: 炮

炮

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Meaning cannon, artillery, firecracker

Pronunciation

pào

Explanation

Left: fire 火, right: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)

Mnemonic
 
The fire that is enwrapped is the cannon.

Radicals

火 fireAlso this radical 灬 stands for fire.
包 package, to cover, to wrapThe upper part 勹 itself already stands for "to enwrap" Actually it is with a "snake" 巳, but simplified understood as a variation of self 己.
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 Vocabulary

大炮 dà pào  big gun; cannon; artillery; one who talks big
弩炮 nǔ pào  catapult; ballista (siege catapult firing stone blocks)
弩炮 nǔ pào  

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