to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)

cannon; CL:座[zuo4]; firecracker

big gun; cannon; artillery; one who talks big; CL:門|门[men2],尊[zun1]

cannon; gun; artillery

to open fire

to open fire with artillery; to set off firecrackers; to make one's stage debut; (slang) to have sex; to masturbate

(slang) effeminate man; sissy; effeminate

firearm

mortar (weapon); Taiwan pr. [po4 ji2 pao4]

firecrackers; string of small firecrackers; CL:枚[mei2]

anti-aircraft gun

rocket artillery

(loanword) cannon

(Northeastern dialect) simple-minded person

cannon used for signaling; signaling shot

(Internet slang) to mouth off; to shoot one's mouth off; sb who does that

mountain gun (portable artillery piece used in mountainous terrain); (dialect) bumpkin; simpleton; idiot

catapult; ballista (siege catapult firing stone blocks)

to fire a salvo; broadside; cannonade

water cannon

gun salute (e.g. 21-gun salute); salvo

(slang) to hook up for sex; to arrange a casual sexual encounter (often with a new or non-committed partner)

firecracker

heavy artillery

field artillery

(coll.) piece of light artillery such as a mortar; (fig.) person who speaks boldly and frankly; hot hatch (car); (also used figuratively with various meanings in other contexts)

subwoofer

(slang) breakup sex

firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition)

to butt in; to interfere; to make things difficult

(slang) to have sex outdoors or in a public place

to talk big; to shoot one's mouth off

(lit.) to fire blank shots; (fig.) to be all talk and no action; to shoot one's mouth off; to make empty promises

to set off firecrackers

curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)

machine cannon; machine-gun cannon

howitzer

railgun

(fig.) opening shot

a short-barreled mortar; an ancient catapult

barrage of gunfire (often used as a metaphor for rapid speech)

(Chinese chess) moving the cannon after moving the horse away; (fig.) a useless action or comment; sth done after it's too late

(idiom) flustered; confused

Western (or Western-style) cannon of the Ming era

to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective

camera (jocular)

bird shotgun replaced by cannon (idiom); equipment improved enormously

recoilless rifle