| 炮 | pào | cannon; CL:座; firecracker |
| 炮弹 | pào dàn | artillery shell; CL:枚 |
| 炮制 | pào zhì | to concoct; to invent; to fabricate; to produce; to process; processing and curing (Chinese medicine) |
| 炮兵 | pào bīng | artillery soldier; gunner |
| 炮火 | pào huǒ | artillery barrage; gunfire |
| 炮台 | pào tái | fort; battery |
| 炮击 | pào jī | to shell; to bombard; bombardment |
| 炮轰 | pào hōng | to bombard; to bomb; trad. also written 炮轟 |
| 炮灰 | pào huī | cannon fodder |
| 炮手 | pào shǒu | gunner; artillery crew |
| 炮儿局 | pàor jú | police station (Beijing slang) |
| 炮塔 | pào tǎ | gun turret |
| 炮烙 | páo lào | the hot pillar (ancient Chinese torture instrument) |
| 炮炼 | páo liàn | to parch and refine medicinal herbs |
| 炮耳 | pào ěr | trunnion; protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot; also written 砲耳 |
| 炮舰 | pào jiàn | gunboat; gunship |
| 炮钎 | pào qiān | a drill; a hammer drill for boring through rock; same as 钎子 |
| 炮火连天 | pào huǒ lián tiān | cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war |
| 炮艇 | pào tǐng | a gunboat |
| 炮响 | pào xiǎng | sound of gunfire; fig. news of momentous events |
