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With the gun (the whole), I use gunpowder and pressure of various gas, and it is named a weapon firing a small missile called a bullet at high speed generally.
It is used for a cage, hunting and a battle by kinetic energy for the purpose of destroying an object.
I am called a gun, and particularly large-scale quality is distinguished.
There are a handgun, a rifle, a machine gun.
I call more than 30mm a gun more than diameter 20mm in the Maritime Safety Agency in old army and navy and the Self-Defense Force.
The things with gunpowder are classified in small firearms, and, for a gun except firearms, an air rifle is representative.
The air rifle is used for the training of a soldier and the police officer other than hunting, and, as a game gun related to this, there is air software cancer.
In addition, I can describe a device emitting some kind of objects at high speed as a gun, and electron gun and (nail cancer) hit this.
Generally it is used as a weapon in hunting and a battle a diameter calls the thing of under 20 millimeters a gun, and to classify things more than 20 millimeters in as a gun, and there is the thing having art value.

I expressed a hole to insert a handle established on the peak part of the ax, and I turned, and the kanji called "the gun" came to express the weapon which fired a bullet from a metal pipe mainly originally.
In addition, in modern Chinese, I use the character of "the spear".