Chinese symbol for “gasoline”
汽油
qì yóu
gasoline
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gasoline is 汽油 (qì yóu), defined as: gasoline.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “gasoline”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 汽油.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汽车 (汽車) | qì chē | car; automobile |
| 蒸汽 | zhēng qì | steam |
| 汽水 | qì shuǐ | soda pop; carbonated soft drink |
| 公共汽车 (公共汽車) | gōng gòng qì chē | bus; 辆 (liàng),班 (bān) |
| 汽车站 (汽車站) | qì chē zhàn | bus stop; bus station |
| 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 |
| 原油 | yuán yóu | crude oil |
See also: Japanese symbol for “gasoline”.
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.