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Mythic Mandarin

奶油 (nǎi yóu): meaning and stroke order

奶油 (nǎi yóu) means cream, butter, (coll.) effeminate.

奶油

Simplified
奶油
Traditional
奶油 (same form)
Pinyin
nǎi yóu

Stroke order of 奶油

奶

  • nǎi breast; milk
  • nǎi variant of 嬭|奶[nai3]
  • nǎi mother; variant of 奶[nai3]
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 妳

Stroke by stroke

油

  • yóu oil; fat
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 奶油

  1. nǎi yóu
    • cream
    • butter
    • (coll.) effeminate

Radicals of the characters

奶
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 5 strokes · 女 on the left, 乃 on the right
油
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 由 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

奶油 in our stories

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  • 子涵没有争吵。妈妈生日那天，她端出了一个自己做的三层蛋糕，上面用奶油画着妈妈年轻时穿白大褂的样子。

    Zǐhán méiyǒu zhēngchǎo māma shēngrì nà tiān tā duān chū le yí gè zìjǐ zuò de sān céng dàngāo shàngmiàn yòng nǎiyóu huà zhe māma niánqīng shí chuān báidàguà de yàngzi

    Zihan didn't argue. On her mother's birthday she brought out a three-tier cake she had made, with her mother as a young doctor in a white coat piped on top in cream.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

Stories using 奶油

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).