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  *油* | 油* | *油
oil / fat / grease / petroleum / to apply tung oil, paint or varnish / oily / greasy / glib / cunning
HSK 2
to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel / to accelerate; to step on the gas / (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on
HSK 2
oil / petroleum
HSK 3
gas station
HSK 4
gasoline
HSK 4
soy sauce
HSK 6
fuel oil
HSK 7-9
oil painting
HSK 7-9
sesame oil / perfumed oil
HSK 7-9
cream / butter / (coll.) effeminate
oil (petroleum) price
diesel fuel
oil field
butter / CL:
oil pipe / (slang) YouTube
grease / oil / fat
greasy dirt / sludge (from an oil spill)
soot / lampblack
coconut oil
oilseed rape (Brassica napus) / rape greens; leafy greens of certain Brassica species / (dialect) bok choy
to deep fry
sesame oil
fuel consumption
accelerator (pedal) / gas pedal / throttle
oleic acid
Jiangyou prefecture-level city in Mianyang 綿陽|绵阳, north Sichuan
CPC Corporation, a state-owned petroleum company in Taiwan (abbr. for 台灣中油|台湾中油)
flippant and insincere (piece of writing or speech) / glib-tongued / oily
kerosene
engine oil
oilseed / oil / fuel
oil lamp
crude oil
oil paints / lacquer / to paint / CL: 層|层
tanker (ship) / CL:
oil pump
lard
(petrochemistry) heavy oil / fuel oil
glycerine / glycerol
oil spill; oil leak / (fig.) boo! (opposite of 加油)
rapeseed oil / canola oil
printing ink
oil and gas
essential oil
asphalt / tar / pitch
oilpaper
glossy / gleaming / shiny (due to greasiness) / slick / greasy / oily
oyster sauce
cooking oil
a deep fryer
butter
to extract oil from vegetables / to press
naphtha
Tiger Balm, an ointment applied topically to treat all manner of aches and pains / (fig.) (coll.) jack of all trades
eloquent and cunning / silver tongued
greasy food; oily food / (of food) greasy; oily; fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar
glossy / shiny
oil extraction / oil recovery
Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii)
oil tank
deep-fried doughcake / oilcake (animal fodder)
carburetor
(oil) tanker / tank ship
essential balm containing menthol, eucalyptus oil etc, used as a mosquito repellant
naked oat (old)
grease / profit / ill-gotten gains
nectarine
lard
oily
fuel depot / fuel farm
oil refinery
shoe polish
semi-solid fat-based substance / (medicine) ointment
lit. oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
butter / beef tallow
(derog.) (of a woman) to bring one's children into a second marriage / children by a previous marriage
tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
to economize on gasoline / fuel-efficient
to pour oil on the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse
to grease / to oil / to baste (cookery)
old fox; slick customer
soy sauce (chiefly in Cantonese and Hakka areas)
to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse
arising involuntarily (idiom); spontaneous / to spring up unbidden (of emotion)
lush green; verdant
youtiao (deep-fried breadstick) / CL: / slick and sly person
tarpaulin
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
turpentine
soy bean oil / (dialect) soy sauce
to mimeograph
grease or fat blobs at the surface of a liquid / tricky and dissolute
Chinese red pine
a variety of chicken
glib / oily-mouthed and smooth talking
greasy dirt
lit. to add oil and vinegar (idiom) / fig. to embellish; to exaggerate (a story, a narration etc)
to secretively take advantage of others or public resources for minor personal gain / to grope a woman or girl
oil well
cod liver oil

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