Chinese symbol for “tanker”
油轮
yóu lún
Traditional: 油輪
tanker (ship); measure word: 艘 (sōu)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tanker is 油轮 (yóu lún), defined as: tanker (ship); measure word: 艘 (sōu).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “tanker”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 油轮.
| 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 |
| 轮胎 (輪胎) | lún tāi | tire; pneumatic tire |
| 一轮 (一輪) | yī lún | first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tanker”.
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.