| 炮 | [ baō ] to sauté, to fry, to dry by heating |
| 炮 | [ paó ] to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan) |
| 炮 | [ paò ] cannon, CL:座[zuo4], firecracker |
| 炮仗 | [ paò zhang ] firecracker |
| 炮兒局 | [ paò jú ] police station (Beijing slang) |
| 炮兵 | [ paò bīng ] artillery soldier, gunner |
| 炮友 | [ paò yoǔ ] fuck buddy, friend with benefits |
| 炮塔 | [ paò tǎ ] gun turret |
| 炮彈 | [ paò dàn ] artillery shell, CL:枚[mei2] |
| 炮戰 | [ paò zhàn ] artillery bombardment, artillery battle |
| 炮擊 | [ paò jī ] to shell, to bombard, bombardment |
| 炮火 | [ paò huǒ ] artillery barrage, gunfire |
| 炮灰 | [ paò huī ] cannon fodder |
| 炮烙 | [ paó laò ] the hot pillar (ancient Chinese torture instrument) |
| 炮煉 | [ paó liàn ] to parch and refine medicinal herbs |
| 炮竹 | [ paò zhú ] firecracker |
| 炮耳 | [ paò ěr ] trunnion, protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot |
| 炮艇機 | [ paò tǐng jī ] gunship (aircraft) |
| 炮艦 | [ paò jiàn ] gunship |
| 炮製 | [ paó zhì ] to concoct, to invent, to fabricate, to produce, to process, processing and curing (Chinese medicine) |
| 炮轟 | [ paò hōng ] to bombard, to bomb, (fig.) to criticize, to roast |
| 炮釺 | [ paò qiān ] a drill, a hammer drill for boring through rock, same as 釺子|钎子 |
| ⇒ 一炮打響 | [ yī paò dǎ xiǎng ] to win instant success (idiom), to start off successfully |
| ⇒ 一炮而紅 | [ yī paò ér hóng ] to win instant success (idiom), to become an instant hit |
| ⇒ 三炮 | [ sān paò ] (Northeastern dialect) simple-minded person |
| ⇒ 三皇炮捶 | [ sān huáng paò chuí ] Paochui - "Three Emperor Cannon Punch" (Chinese Martial Art) |
| ⇒ 低音炮 | [ dī yīn paò ] subwoofer |
| ⇒ 佛朗機炮 | [ fó lǎng jī paò ] Western (or Western-style) cannon of the Ming era |
| ⇒ 八二三炮戰 | [ bā èr sān paò zhàn ] bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis |
| ⇒ 加農炮 | [ jiā nóng paò ] cannon (loanword) |
| ⇒ 嘴炮 | [ zuǐ paò ] (Internet slang) to mouth off, to shoot one's mouth off, sb who does that |
| ⇒ 大炮打蚊子 | [ dà paò dǎ wén zi ] cannon fire to hit a mosquito, to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut |
| ⇒ 如法炮製 | [ rú fǎ paó zhì ] lit. to follow the recipe (idiom), fig. to follow a set pattern |
| ⇒ 娘炮 | [ niáng paò ] (slang) effeminate man, sissy, effeminate |
| ⇒ 子母炮彈 | [ zǐ mǔ paò dàn ] artillery cluster bomb |
| ⇒ 打橫炮 | [ dǎ héng paò ] to butt in, to interfere, to make things difficult |
| ⇒ 打炮 | [ dǎ paò ] to open fire with artillery, to set off firecrackers, to make one's stage debut, (slang) to have sex, to masturbate |
| ⇒ 打野炮 | [ dǎ yě paò ] (slang) to have sex outdoors or in a public place |
| ⇒ 排炮 | [ paí paò ] to fire a salvo, broadside, cannonade |
| ⇒ 放大炮 | [ fàng dà paò ] to talk big, to shoot one's mouth off |
| ⇒ 放空炮 | [ fàng kōng paò ] (lit.) to fire blank shots, (fig.) to be all talk and no action, to shoot one's mouth off, to make empty promises |
| ⇒ 放鞭炮 | [ fàng biān paò ] to set off firecrackers |
| ⇒ 放馬後炮 | [ fàng mǎ hoù paò ] to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective |
| ⇒ 榴彈炮 | [ liú dàn paò ] howitzer |
| ⇒ 機關炮 | [ jī guān paò ] machine cannon, machine-gun cannon |
| ⇒ 水炮 | [ shuǐ paò ] water cannon |
| ⇒ 水炮車 | [ shuǐ paò chē ] water cannon vehicle, common name for specialized crowd management vehicle 人群管理特別用途車|人群管理特别用途车[ren2 qun2 guan3 li3 te4 bie2 yong4 tu2 che1] |
| ⇒ 火炮 | [ huǒ paò ] cannon, gun, artillery |
| ⇒ 火箭炮 | [ huǒ jiàn paò ] rocket artillery |
| ⇒ 無後坐力炮 | [ wú hoù zuò lì paò ] recoilless rifle |
| ⇒ 燃放鞭炮 | [ rán fàng biān paò ] to set off fire crackers |
| ⇒ 禮炮 | [ lǐ paò ] gun salute (e.g. 21-gun salute), salvo |
| ⇒ 禮炮號 | [ lǐ paò haò ] Salyut (salute), Russian spacecraft series |
| ⇒ 第一炮 | [ dì yī paò ] (fig.) opening shot |
| ⇒ 糖衣炮彈 | [ táng yī paò dàn ] sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences |
| ⇒ 約炮 | [ yuē paò ] (slang) to hook up for a one night stand, booty call |
| ⇒ 花炮 | [ huā paò ] firecracker |
| ⇒ 迫擊炮 | [ paǐ jī paò ] mortar (weapon) |
| ⇒ 野炮 | [ yě paò ] field artillery |
| ⇒ 長槍短炮 | [ cháng qiāng duǎn paò ] camera (jocular) |
| ⇒ 開門炮 | [ kaī mén paò ] firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition) |
| ⇒ 鞭炮 | [ biān paò ] firecrackers, string of small firecrackers, CL:枚[mei2] |
| ⇒ 馬後炮 | [ mǎ hoù paò ] lit. firing after the horse, fig. belated action, giving advice in hindsight |
| ⇒ 高射炮 | [ gaō shè paò ] anti-aircraft gun |
| ⇒ 鳥槍換炮 | [ qiāng huàn paò ] bird shotgun replaced by cannon (idiom); equipment improved enormously |
