Illustration: On the wooden veranda of a rural house, a hunter sits with a matchlock firearm resting horizontally across a low wooden support. Its long metal barrel, wooden stock, trigger guard, and side-mounted firing mechanism are clearly visible.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

鉄てっ砲ぽう

teppou

gun, firearm

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれが鉄砲てっぽうを掃除そうじしていたら暴発ぼうはつし、もう少すこしで妻つまに当あたるところだった。

    The gun went off while he was cleaning it, and the bullet almost struck his wife.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 警察けいさつは鉄砲てっぽうの指紋しもんとドアの指紋しもんとを見みくらべた。

    The police compared the fingerprints on the gun with those on the door.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 合衆国がっしゅうこくでは2億おく1600万丁まんちょうもの鉄砲てっぽう類るいが、民間みんかんの手てにあるという。

    In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 鉄砲

  • 鉄ironOnテツKunくろがね
  • 砲cannon; gunOnホウ

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