铳
銃chòng
#5,714 most
frequent character
ancient firearm, gun
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
铳 combines 钅 metal with 充 chōng, whose tone is different. It first meant the opening in an axe head where the handle fits. Later it came to mean an old type of firearm, a blunderbuss.
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