油 (yóu) means Oil (oily - stain with oil - sly). Below are 18 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
汽 油 又涨价了。
Qìyóu yòu zhǎng jià le.
Petrol has gone up in price again.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 汽油
请给我一点酱 油 。
Qǐng gěi wǒ yìdiǎn jiàngyóu.
Please give me a little soy sauce.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 酱油
这道菜要放酱 油 。
Zhè dào cài yào fàng jiàngyóu.
This dish needs soy sauce.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 酱油
这种鱼可以 油 炸。
Zhè zhǒng yú kěyǐ yóuzhá.
This kind of fish can be deep-fried.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 油炸
前面有一个加 油 站。
Qiánmiàn yǒu yí ge jiāyóuzhàn.
There is a petrol station up ahead.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 加油站
油 炸的东西少吃点。
Yóuzhá de dōngxi shǎo chī diǎn.
Eat less deep-fried food.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 油炸
这个国家盛产石 油 。
Zhège guójiā shèngchǎn shíyóu.
This country is rich in oil.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 石油
我们在加 油 站停一下。
Wǒmen zài jiāyóuzhàn tíng yíxià.
Let us stop at the petrol station for a moment.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 加油站
这辆卡车用的是柴 油 。
Zhè liàng kǎchē yòng de shì cháiyóu.
This lorry runs on diesel.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 柴油
油 锅里的 油 溅了出来。
Yóu guō lǐ de yóu jiàn le chūlái.
Oil splashed out of the frying pan.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 溅
墙上的 油 漆已经掉了。
Qiáng shang de yóuqī yǐjīng diào le.
The paint on the wall has come off.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 油漆
柴 油 的价格这个月又涨了。
Cháiyóu de jiàgé zhège yuè yòu zhǎng le.
The price of diesel has gone up again this month.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 柴油
石 油 价格影响着全球经济。
Shíyóu jiàgé yǐngxiǎngzhe quánqiú jīngjì.
Oil prices affect the global economy.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 石油
他们给门刷了一层新 油 漆。
Tāmen gěi mén shuā le yì céng xīn yóuqī.
They gave the door a fresh coat of paint.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 油漆
他们在这一带进行石 油 勘探。
Tāmen zài zhè yídài jìnxíng shíyóu kāntàn.
They are carrying out oil exploration in this area.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 勘探
他最近尽量少吃 油 腻的东西。
Tā zuìjìn jǐnliàng shǎo chī yóunì de dōngxi.
He has been trying to eat less greasy food lately.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 油腻
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Words that contain 油
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Questions about 油
How is 油 used in a sentence?
This page shows 18 sentences using 油 (yóu, "Oil (oily - stain with oil - sly)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 油 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 油 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 油?
The dictionary page for 油 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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