重炮 (zhòng pào) — heavy artillery

Definition

noun
heavy artillery
Measure word · 门

Examples

  • 重炮,。
    Zhè yì zhǒng zhòng pào de wēi lì fēi cháng dà, kě yǐ cuī huǐ dí rén de mù biāo.
    This type of heavy artillery has great power and can destroy enemy targets.
  • ,重炮。
    Zài dì yī cì shì jiè dà zhàn zhōng, zhòng pào bèi guǎng fàn shǐ yòng.
    In World War I, heavy artillery was widely used.
  • 重炮。
    Jūn duì yòng zhòng pào gōng jī le dí rén de mù biāo.
    The army used heavy artillery to attack the enemy's targets.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

炮pàocannon

重 says the weapon is heavy, and 炮 names the cannon.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
人人rénman
Sound part声符shēngfú
東
東dōng重zhòng
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

重 developed from a picture of a man carrying a bag, with 人 for the man and 東 for the bag; a later ground element was folded into the form.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
Sound part声符shēngfú
包
包bāo炮pào
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

炮 combines 火 and 包; 包 supplies the sound.

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