Character Details
| oil; fuel | Ascii: — | w940 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 油 | yóu | yoh | 2 | 氵 (water) + 由 (from) → oil | 油 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The liquid oil that sprouts from an oil field. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - This character is a combination of 'water' and 'field', and alludes to the liquid made from minerals under the fields — oil. | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Come on come on | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 85 - 氏 | shì | water | clan | clan mark | 氏 民 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 氵 (water) + 由 (from) → oil | 水 (semantic) | 由 (phonetic) | phonetic from 由 | ||||||||