炮
pàobāopáo HSK6

large gun, cannon

炮 pào frequency
variant 砲
cannon noun
large military weapon that fires shells; cannon-shaped piece in Chinese chess
firecracker
small explosive charge in a paper casing used for noise
炮 bāo
to quick-fry
to sauté meat slices etc. quickly over high heat
to dry by heat
to place an object on or near a heat source to dry it out
炮 páo
to process medicine
to prepare Chinese herbal medicine by roasting or parching in a pan to reduce toxicity or change properties
to roast
(literary) to roast meat over an open fire; to wrap meat in mud and roast it
炮 pào
blasting
explosive charge placed in a borehole for blasting rocks or earth

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Frequency
Character
Written text
914th most common 187.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,823rd most common 26.2 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.08 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
21.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+70AE

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)