油 — Chinese character
油
yóu
oil, fat, grease, lard; oil paints
- Pinyin
- yóu
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 由
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 由
- Japanese
- 油 as a kanji
Common words with 油
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 石油 | shí yóu | oil; petroleum |
| 加油 | jiā yóu | to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel; to accelerate; to step on the gas |
| 汽油 | qì yóu | gasoline |
| 原油 | yuán yóu | crude oil |
| 柴油机 (柴油機) | chái yóu jī | diesel engine |
| 油价 (油價) | yóu jià | oil (petroleum) price |
| 加油站 | jiā yóu zhàn | gas station |
| 油画 (油畫) | yóu huà | oil painting |
| 柴油 | chái yóu | diesel fuel |
| 油田 | yóu tián | oil field |
| 奶油 | nǎi yóu | cream; butter |
| 推油 | tuī yóu | oil massage |
English words written with 油
油 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.