"cannon fodder" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 炮灰 | cannon fodder |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 大炮 大砲 | big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL:門|门[men2],尊[zun1] | syn | |
| 饲料 飼料 | feed / fodder | syn | |
| 火炮 火砲 | cannon / gun / artillery | syn | |
| 水枪 水槍 | water pistol (toy) / water gun / sprinkler / water cannon | ||
| 加农炮 加農炮 | cannon (loanword) | ||
| 粮草 糧草 | army provisions / rations and fodder | syn | |
| 草料 | fodder | syn | |
| 铡刀 鍘刀 | lever-style guillotine (for chopping fodder etc) | syn | |
| 油饼 油餅 | deep-fried doughcake / oilcake (animal fodder) | syn | |
| 青贮 青貯 | silage / green fodder | ||
| 青饲料 青飼料 | silage / green fodder | ||
| 粗饲料 粗飼料 | silage / rough fodder | ||
| 粮秣 糧秣 | provisions (e.g. military) / forage / fodder | syn | |
| 刍 芻 | to mow or cut grass / hay / straw / fodder | ||
| 鸟枪换炮 鳥槍換炮 | bird shotgun replaced by cannon (idiom) / equipment improved enormously | syn | |
| 炮火连天 砲火連天 | cannon firing for days on end (idiom) / enveloped in the flames of war | ||
| 礮 | ancient ballista for throwing heavy stones / variant of 炮[pao4], cannon | ||
| 机关炮 機關炮 | machine cannon / machine-gun cannon | ||
| 人群管理特别用途车 人群管理特別用途車 | specialized crowd management vehicle, a riot control vehicle equipped with a water cannon, commonly known as water cannon vehicle 水炮車|水炮车[shui3 pao4 che1] | ||
| 兵马未动，粮草先行 兵馬未動，糧草先行 | before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom) / logistics comes before military maneuvers / an army marches on its stomach | ||
| 宿草 | grass that has grown on a grave since last year / (fig.) grave / to have died long ago / fodder provided to animals for the night | ||
| 料豆儿 料豆兒 | cooked black soybean as animal fodder | ||
| 栈豆 棧豆 | fodder | ||
| 刍秣 芻秣 | hay / fodder | ||
| 饲料资源 飼料資源 | fodder resources | ||
| 饲料田 飼料田 | fodder bank | ||
| 𫓧 鈇 | (literary) fodder chopper / (chemistry) flerovium | ||
| 佛朗机炮 佛朗機炮 | Western (or Western-style) cannon of the Ming era | ||
| 佛朗机砲 佛朗機砲 | Western (and so styled) cannon of the Ming era / also written 佛朗機炮|佛朗机炮 | ||
| 佛朗机铳 佛朗機銃 | Western (and so styled) cannon of the Ming era | ||
| 加农 加農 | cannon (loanword) | ||
| 十吋口炮 | ten inch caliber cannon | ||
| 大炮打蚊子 | cannon fire to hit a mosquito / to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut | ||
| 炮耳 | trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot | ||
| 砲耳 | trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot / also written 炮耳 | ||
| 号炮 號砲 | cannon used for signaling / signaling shot | ||
| 号礮 號礮 | signaling cannon fire | ||
| 水炮 | water cannon | ||
| 水炮车 水炮車 | 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] | ||
| 炮决 炮決 | to execute sb by cannon |