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-<WL>枪(F槍) [qiāng] gun  [chēng] 欃枪 chánchēng comet@@  [qiǎng] cf. 槍
+<WL>枪(F槍) [qiāng] gun/firearm; 手枪 pistol; 步枪 rifle; 枪弹 bullet@@  [chēng] 欃枪 chánchēng comet  [qiǎng] cf. 槍
-The character 枪/槍(􀿭) qiāng ‘gun’ (formerly ‘spear’) combines 木 (mù) ‘wood’, and 仓(倉) cāng/chuàng (phonosemantic).
+The simple-form character 枪 (8 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character 槍 (14 strokes), replacing the full-form component 倉 (10 strokes) with its simple form 仓 (4 strokes).
-	Compare: 创/創(􀰜) chuāng ‘wound/trauma’, 怆/愴(􁵓) chuàng ‘sad/sorrowful’.
+	The Shuōwén Seal form of 枪/槍(􀿭) qiāng ‘wooden spear’ combines 木 (mù) ‘tree/wood’, and 仓/倉(􀸻) cāng/chuàng (phonosemantic).
-	Note: The gun (火枪) is said to have been invented in China in the mid 13th c. (HDZ).
+	Compare: 创/創(􀰜) chuāng ‘wound/trauma’; 怆/愴(􁵓) chuàng ‘sad/sorrowful’, formerly wr. 倉.
+	Note: Formerly 枪/槍(􀿭) qiāng ‘wooden/bamboo spear’, and later also 枪/槍 qiāng ‘gun’, since the early Ch. gun (weapon) was made of a bamboo tube (loaded with an early kind of gunpowder).
+	Note: The weapon 突火枪=吐火枪 ‘early bamboo gun’, firing 子窠 ‘projectile/shot’ (of arsenic trioxide/etc.), is said to have been invented in late Song Dynasty China, mid-13th c. (HDZ); it seems to have been as much fireworks/bomb as gun (incendiary/pyrotechnic device, chemical/psychological weapon), having very limited range, but startling (and sometimes poisonous) effect.
+	Compare: 火枪 huǒqiang ‘firelock/flintlock (gun/shotgun)’, formerly also wr. 火槍/鎗 huǒchēng/huǒqiāng; 火炮 huǒpào ‘canon/artillery’ (formerly also wr. 火砲, 火礮).
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+#c木仓𠆢㔾人
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