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(qiāng) - gun, rifle, spear in Mandarin

qiāng

Traditional: 槍

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Translation

gun, rifle, spear

Word origin

枪 (qiāng) is a phono-semantic compound of 木, the wood radical, and 仓 (cāng) as the phonetic. It first meant a wooden spear or lance and later extended to firearms such as the rifle or gun.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
木 (wood radical) + 仓 (cāng, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 枪

Examples

The police officer is holding a gun.

You cannot use a gun casually.

That gun is fake.

He has never fired a gun.

枪 (qiāng) - gun, rifle, spear.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 枪.

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This word is part of lesson 9.