(kāi qiāng) - to fire a gun, to shoot in Mandarin
kāiqiāngTraditional: 開槍
Translation
to fire a gun, to shoot
Word origin
开枪 means to fire a gun. 开 (kāi) is to open or set off. 枪 (qiāng) means gun or spear, a phono-semantic compound with the 木 'wood' radical (originally a wooden spear shaft) and phonetic 仓 (cāng).
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 开 (kāi, to set off) + 枪 (qiāng, gun)
Stroke order
开
枪
Examples
。
He didn't fire.
迫。
The police were forced to shoot.
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Please don't shoot.
。
The police suddenly opened fire.
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He didn't dare to shoot.
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