油 yóu

1. yóu noun oil; fat; grease; lard
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '油'; Guoyu '油' n 1; Kroll 2015 '油' 3, p. 563; Unihan '油'; XHZD '油' 1, p. 909)
2. yóu noun petroleum; kerosene
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Oil based fuels (Guoyu '油' n 2; XHZD '油' 2, p. 909)
3. yóu adjective stained with oil
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '油' v 2; XHZD '油' 4, p. 909)
4. yóu adjective slippery
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '油' 2, p. 563; XHZD '油' 5, pp. 909-910)
5. yóu adjective bubbling up; flourishing
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '油'adj 2; Kroll 2015 '油' 1, p. 563)
6. yóu noun an item of of additional benefit
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '油' n 3)
7. yóu adjective glossy
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '油'adj 3)
8. yóu noun tung oil [tree]
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '油' 3b, p. 563)
9. yóu adjective sneaky; insincere
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '油'adj 1)
10. yóu verb to paint
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '油' v 1; Unihan '油'; XHZD '油' 3, p. 909)

Contained in

• 煤焦油 coal tar
• 菜籽油 vegetable oil; rapeseed oil
• 甘油 glycerol
• 靛油 aniline oil
• 油症 Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan
• 板油 leaf fat; leaf lard
• 油漆 paint; lacquer
• 含油岩 oil bearing rock
• 松节油(松節油) turpentine
• 芝麻油 sesame oil
• 油布 tarpaulin
• 缺油 oil shortage
• 揩油 to take advantage of; to freeload
• 酥松油脂(酥鬆油脂) shortening (fat used in cooking cakes)
• 油气(油氣) oil and gas
• 油子 dense and sticky substance; a slippery character
• 油轮(油輪) oil tanker
• 油鸡(油雞) a variety of chicken
• 芥花油 canola oil
• 化油器 carburetor
• 油黑 glossy black
• 柏油马路(柏油馬路) tarred road; asphalt road
• 绿油油(綠油油) lush green; verdant
• 供油系统(供油系統) fuel supply system; lubricating system
• 油亮 glossy; shiny
• 兰郑长成品油管道(蘭鄭長成品油管道) Lanzhou-Zhengzhou-Changsha oil pipeline
• 加油站 gas station
• 加大油门(加大油門) to accelerate; to step on the gas
• 汽油 gas; gasoline
• 机油(機油) engine oil
• 豆油 soy bean oil
• 洋油 imported oil; kerosene
• 油盐酱醋(油鹽醬醋) oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar; the trivia of everyday life
• 奶油鸡蛋(奶油雞蛋) cream sponge
• 擦油 to oil; to anoint
• 加油添醋 to add interest (to a story); to sex up
• 油箱 oil tank
• 皮鞋油 shoe polish
• 甘油三脂 triglyceride
• 油锅(油鍋) a deep fryer
• 牛油 butter
• 石油化学(石油化學) petrochemistry
• 滚油煎心(滾油煎心) to suffer mental anguish
• 油尺 dipstick; oil measuring rod
• 豪油 oyster sauce [written wrongly]
• 焦油 tar
• 油桃 nectarine
• 植物牛油 margarine

Also contained in

油尖旺 、 中国石油 、 中国海洋石油总公司

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷10　志第5　禮儀五 Volume 10 Treatises 5: Rites 5 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 21
• 第九十一回 Chapter 91 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 18
• 卷二十四　　　　志第十四　　　車服 Volume 24 Treatises 15: Carraiges and Attire New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 12
• 卷十七 志第九 輿服 Volume 17 Treatises 9: Caraiges and Dress Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 11
• 卷四十五 志第二十五: 輿服 Volume 45 Treatises 25: Carriages and Clothes Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 10
• 卷四十三　志第二十四:　輿服上 天子車輅、皇后妃嬪車輦、皇太子車制、王公以下車制及鞍勒飾 輿服中 天子袞冕 視朝之服 皇后冠服 皇太子冠服 宗室及外戚並一品命婦 臣下朝服 祭服 公服 輿服下 衣服通制 Volume 43 Treatises 24: Carriages and Clothing 1 - Emperor's Carriages, Empress' and Consorts' Carriages; Crown Prince's Carriages; Princes, Dukes, and below Carriages and Saddlery; Carriages and Clothing 2 - Emperors' Robes and Crowns; Clothing for those Accompanying the Emperor; Empresses' Crown and Clothing; Crown Princes' Crown and Clothing; Dress for the Imperial Clan, Families of Imperial Consorts, and Titled Nobility; Court Dress for Officials; Ceremonial Clothing; Official Clothing; Carriages and Clothing 3 - Tailoring History of Jin 金史 — count: 9
• 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 9
• 卷一百〇七　列傳第四十五:　高汝礪 張行信 Volume 107 Biographies 45: Gao Ruli, Zhang Xingxin History of Jin 金史 — count: 7
• 卷六十五 志第四十一 輿服一 Volume 65 Treatises 41: Carriages and Clothing 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 7
• 第八十六回 Chapter 86 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 7

Collocations

• 油幢 (油幢) 綠油幢 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress — count: 31
• 油络 (油絡) 又給油絡通幰車 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷八十九 列傳第四十九 袁粲 Volume 89 Biographies 49: Yuan Can — count: 27
• 给油 (給油) 又給油絡通幰車 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷八十九 列傳第四十九 袁粲 Volume 89 Biographies 49: Yuan Can — count: 25
• 油纁 (油纁) 紫油纁硃裏 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷10　志第5　禮儀五 Volume 10 Treatises 5: Rites 5 — count: 23
• 青油 (青油) 上加青油幢 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress — count: 19
• 紫油 (紫油) 紫油纁硃裏 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷10　志第5　禮儀五 Volume 10 Treatises 5: Rites 5 — count: 15
• 绿油 (綠油) 綠油幢 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress — count: 9
• 油灌 (油灌) 膏油灌其中 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷五十四 吳書九 周瑜魯肅呂蒙傳 Volume 54: Book of Wu 9 - Biographies of Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lü Meng — count: 8
• 赤油 (赤油) 以赤油 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress — count: 5
• 油衣 (油衣) 綠油衣 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷十七 志第九 輿服 Volume 17 Treatises 9: Caraiges and Dress — count: 5