炮

to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating

to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)

cannon / CL:座[zuo4] / firecracker

variant of 炮[pao4]

surname Bao

to cover / to wrap / to hold / to include / to take charge of / to contract (to or for) / package / wrapper / container / bag / to hold or embrace / bundle / packet / CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

cannon (loanword)

to win instant success (idiom) / to become an instant hit

(Northeastern dialect) simple-minded person

Paochui - "Three Emperor Cannon Punch" (Chinese Martial Art)

(idiom) flustered / confused

subwoofer

Western (or Western-style) cannon of the Ming era

bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

cannon used for signaling / signaling shot

(idiom) to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try

to win instant success (idiom) / to start off successfully