油
yóu HSK2

oil

油 yóu
oil noun
oil; fat; grease; any of various liquid fats or hydrocarbons used as food, fuel, or lubricants

油和水不能混合。

yóu hé shuǐ bù​néng hùn​hé.

Oil and water don't mix.

to paint nounverb
to apply tung oil, paint, or varnish to a surface
greasy adjectivenoun
oily; greasy; (of food) heavy with fat
glib
slick; cunning; untrustworthy and smooth in speech or behavior
to be stained with oil
to get oil or grease on something; to be stained by oil
(bound form) lush
(bound form) lush; exuberant; appearing as if dripping, as in 油然 yóu​rán
surname
a Chinese surname
extra profit
extra or additional profit; illicit gains; kickbacks
deep color
(of a color) deep and shiny; dark

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Classifier

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Frequency
Character
Written text
948th most common 178.1 per million
Movie subtitles
618th most common 225.3 per million appears in 51% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
44.1 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
158.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+6CB9

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)