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Kanji Detail for 油 - "oil, grease"

油

  • Meaning

    油 means "oil, grease." Also associated with vigorous.

    1. Oil - A liquid fat or petroleum.

    2. Grease - A thick oily substance.

    3. Vigorous - Energetically flowing.

  • Words using 油

    • 石油 せきゆ Listen oil; petroleum; kerosene
    • 原油 げんゆ Listen crude oil
    • 油田 ゆでん Listen oil field
    • 産油国 さんゆこく Listen oil-producing country
    • 油井 ゆせい Listen oil well
    • 灯油 とうゆ Listen kerosene; paraffin; lamp oil
    • 軽油 けいゆ Listen diesel oil; diesel fuel; gas oil
    • 油彩 ゆさい Listen oil painting

  • Four-character idioms with 油

    • 油断大敵 ゆだんたいてき Listen don't let your guard down; carelessness is the great enemy; danger comes soonest when it is despised

  • Tattoo check: 油

    • Verified meaning: oil, grease
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あぶら, ゆさき)
    • Also carries these associations: vigorous

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 油

    Surnames 油(あぶら)Listen 油(ゆさき)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    oil; fat

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    oil, fat, grease, lard; paints

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    oil; fat; grease; petroleum; to apply tung oil, paint or varnish; oily; greasy; glib; cunning

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    oil, fat, grease, lard; oil paints

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A liquid substance that can burn. Found in animals, plants, and minerals. As in lard (豬油), soybean oil (豆油), kerosene (煤油), and the like. | A flourishing appearance. Mencius says: "The sky gathers clouds naturally" (天油然作雲). | Colloquially, being slick is called 油. As in "glib tongue" (油腔滑調).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    yu(ユ) ユ

    yuu(ユウ) ユウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    abura(あぶら) あぶら

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    oil grease vigorous flowing wellspring fat cooking fuel greasy liquid lubricant petroleum slick frying oily

Sentences including 油

  • Japan was hard up for oil.

  • Oil is of great use to us.

  • We are not short of oil in this country.

  • You'd better stay on your guard.

  • We've run short of oil.

  • There is little oil in japan.

  • Mary oiled her bicycle.

  • Oil this bicycle.

  • We will run short of oil some day.

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