炮 in English
- to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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事情已经定下来了，我们再怎么努力也无济于事了，一切都是马后炮了。
The matter can't be changed. No matter how hard we try, everything is fruitless.
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人们很容易将能源和电力小组委员会的大多数成员描述为笨蛋。他们散布石油和煤炭公司炮制的虚假信息，以最大限度地减少全球气候变迁的重要性，被称为科学文盲。
One can easily characterize a majority of the energy and power subcommittee members as nincompoops — scientific illiterates who spread misinformation crafted by oil and coal companies in order to minimize the significance of global climate change.
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我不是想要老婆，我想找个炮友而已。
It's not a wife that I want, but a sex friend.
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我们一直是很好的炮友。
We were always very good fuck buddies.
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最后我成功和那个女孩成为了炮友关系。
In the end, I did manage to become friends with benefits with that girl.
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爱迪生发明了电灯炮。
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.