Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 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 fire(Also this radical 灬 stands for fire.)
包 package, to cover, to wrap(Actually 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)

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