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炰

páo

Character

What 炰 means

1. to roast

Sounds the same

Read páo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 袍gown (lined)
• 跑(of an animal) to paw (the ground)
• 刨to dig; to excavate; (colloquial) to exclude
• 庖kitchen
• 炮to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)
• 咆to roar
• 狍Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus)
• 匏bottle gourd; Lagenaria vulgaris
• 鞄to work hides; leather bag
• 麃(archaic) a type of deer
• 麅variant of 狍

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