鉄砲

てっぽう

Also written 鉄炮

Meanings

1. Noun gun; firearm
2. wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice
3. puffer fish See also: ふぐ.

Kanji

• 鉄 iron. Read as テツ.
• 砲 cannon. Read as ホウ.

Example sentences

• 闇夜に鉄砲じゃあるまいし、そんな場当たり的なやり方でうまくいくとは思えないよ。
  That's just a shot in the dark. How do you think you'll succeed by just acting on the spur of the moment like that?
• 警察は鉄砲の指紋とドアの指紋とを見くらべた。
  The police compared the fingerprints on the gun with those on the door.
• 彼が鉄砲を掃除していたら暴発し、もう少しで妻に当たるところだった。
  The gun went off while he was cleaning it, and the bullet almost struck his wife.
• 矢でも鉄砲でも持ってこい。
  Let them all come.

Common phrases

• 鉄砲を撃つ
• 鉄砲を持つ
• 鉄砲を使う

Words containing 鉄砲

• 水鉄砲 (みずでっぽう) water pistol
• 無鉄砲 (むてっぽう) rash
• 鉄砲水 (てっぽうみず) flash flood

And 22 more.

Word lists

• JLPT N2

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