油 (yóu)
oil; fat; grease; gasoline
How 油 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 油
- Simplified
- 油 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- 二 two
- 丨 line
- 凵 container
Common words using 油
- 加油 jiāyóu
- to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel
- 加油站 jiāyóuzhàn
- gas station
- 原油 yuányóu
- crude oil
- 奶油 nǎiyóu
- cream or butter (meaning varies regionally)
- 指甲油 zhǐjiayóu
- nail polish
- 柴米油鹽 cháimǐyóuyán
- lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt; fig. life's daily necessities
- 橄欖油 gǎnlǎnyóu
- olive oil
- 機油 jīyóu
- engine oil
- 汽油 qìyóu
- gasoline
- 油價 yóujià
- oil (petroleum) price
- 油光 yóuguāng
- glossy; gleaming; shiny (due to greasiness)
- 油條 yóutiáo
- youtiao (deep-fried breadstick); CL:根[gen1]
油 in a sentence
這道菜太油了，我吃不習慣。
Zhè dào cài tài yóu le, wǒ chī bù xíguàn.
“This dish is too oily; I'm not used to eating it.”
How common is 油?
油 is the 946th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 88.3% of all running text.
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