''Tu Huo Qiang'' (Chinese:
突火
Radical 86 or radical fire () meaning "fire" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 639 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
In the Chinese w ...
枪;
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...
: ''tūhuǒqiāng'') was a precursor to guns invented in the 1250s. Chinese historian in the 1950s first posited it as evidence of the first "occlusive bullet", whereby a "pellet wad" occluded the barrel.
See also
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Wujing Zongyao
The ''Wujing Zongyao'' (), sometimes rendered in English as the ''Complete Essentials for the Military Classics'', is a Chinese military compendium written from around 1040 to 1044.
The book was compiled during the Northern Song dynasty by Ze ...
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Huolongjing
The ''Huolongjing'' (; Wade-Giles: ''Huo Lung Ching''; rendered in English as ''Fire Drake Manual'' or ''Fire Dragon Manual''), also known as ''Huoqitu'' (“Firearm Illustrations”), is a Chinese military treatise compiled and edited by Jiao ...
References
Early firearms
Firearms of China
Chinese inventions
Military history of Imperial China
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