油 (yóu): meaning and stroke order
油 (yóu) means oil, fat, grease, petroleum, to apply tung oil, paint or varnish, oily, greasy, glib.
油
- Simplified
- 油
- Traditional
- 油 (same form)
- Pinyin
- yóu
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Stroke order of 油
油
- yóu oil; fat
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 油
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yóu
- oil
- fat
- grease
- petroleum
- to apply tung oil, paint or varnish
- oily
- greasy
- glib
- cunning
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 油
- 加油 jiā yóu to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel; to accelerate; to step on the gas
- 奶油 nǎi yóu cream; butter
- 油腻 yóu nì greasy food; oily food; (of food) greasy; oily; fatty
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).