礮

Information about character(s)

Radical: 石
Radical Strokes: 5
Additional Strokes: 16
Total Strokes: 21
Variants: 炮砲礟

Pronunciation

Pinyin: pào
Cantonese: paau3

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: ancient ballista for throwing heavy stones a cannon, a gun

CE-Dict: ancient ballista for throwing heavy stones/variant of 炮[pao4], cannon

康熙字典文字版 【午集下】【石字部】礮
【廣韻】匹貌切【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】披敎切，𠀤拋去聲。俗作砲。機石也。【前漢·甘延壽傳】投石絕等倫。【張晏曰】范蠡兵法，飛石重十二斤，爲機發行二百步，礮蓋出此。【魏略曰】諸葛亮起衝車，郝昭以繩連石磨壓之，衝車折，卽礮事。【唐書·李密傳】以機發石，爲攻城械，號將軍礮。　又通作拋。【後漢·袁紹傳】曹操發石車擊袁紹，軍中呼霹靂車。【註】卽今拋車。【集韻】亦作𥔰。
考證：〔【唐書·李密傳】以機發石，爲攻城具，號將軍爲礮。〕　謹照原文具改械將軍下省爲字。

CF-Dict: Artillerie