Chinese symbol for “baste”
涂油
tú yóu
Traditional: 塗油
to grease; to oil; to baste (cookery)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for baste is 涂油 (tú yóu), defined as: to grease; to oil; to baste (cookery).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 涂油.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 糊涂 (糊塗) | hú tu | muddled; silly |
| 涂鸦 (塗鴉) | tú yā | graffiti; scrawl |
| 涂料 (塗料) | tú liào | paint |
| 涂抹 (塗抹) | tú mǒ | to paint; to smear |
| 一塌糊涂 (一塌糊塗) | yī tā hú tu | muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition; complete shambles |
| 涂层 (塗層) | tú céng | protective layer; coating |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “baste”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.