高射炮 (gāo shè pào) — anti-aircraft gun or artillery | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

anti-aircraft gun or artillery

Measure word · 门

Examples

高射炮。
Bù duì shǐ yòng gāo shè pào lái fáng yù kōng zhōng gōng jī.
The military uses anti-aircraft guns to defend against aerial attacks.
高射炮。
Zhè zhǒng gāo shè pào néng gòu kuài sù suǒ dìng dí jī.
This type of anti-aircraft artillery can quickly lock onto enemy planes.
，高射炮。
Zhàn chǎng shàng, gāo shè pào duì dī kōng mù biāo wēi xié hěn dà.
On the battlefield, anti-aircraft guns pose a great threat to low-altitude 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.

高射shoot high

高gāohigh射shèshoot

偏正Modifier + head

Shoot high and cannon combine to name a cannon aimed at aircraft.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

高 was drawn as a tall building.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

弓弓gōngbow
矢矢shǐarrow

In 射, the left part comes from 弓 (bow) and 矢 (arrow), and the right part comes from a hand drawing the bowstring.

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

火包炮

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.

Appears in

Military & Defense

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