(qiāng) - gun, rifle, spear in Mandarin
qiāngTraditional: 槍
HSK 4
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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
枪
Examples
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The police officer is holding a gun.
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You cannot use a gun casually.
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That gun is fake.
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He has never fired a gun.
枪 (qiāng) - gun, rifle, spear.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 枪.
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