油 in English

Measure word

• 股 gǔ thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit... attested in use

Stroke order

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

• Bronze script 戰國中期.楚
• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 世界上的石油快用完了。

  The world is running out of oil.

• 今天早上，我吃了面包夹黄油。

  I ate bread and butter this morning.

• 在下雪很多的地方，煤油是不可或缺的东西。

  In places where it snows a lot, kerosene is an indispensable item.

• 我们吃面包夹黄油。

  We eat butter on bread.

• 我们把牛奶製成乳酪和奶油。

  We make milk into cheese and butter.

• 我们把牛奶製成奶酪和黄油。

  We make milk into cheese and butter.

• 我们没奶油了。

  We have run out of cream.

• 我们要订18吨橄榄油。

  We'd like to order 18 tonnes of olive oil.

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