油

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

8 strokes Dict coverage rank #214 U+6CB9

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 (semantic, “water”) + 由 (phonetic, yóu)

components: 氵由

oil · Heisig RSH #915

水 water + sprout

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 由

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 由 (yóu) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
由 sound component	yóu	cause, reason; from
抽	chōu	to draw out, to pull out; to sprout
轴	zhóu	axle, pivot, shaft; axis
邮	yóu	mail; post office
袖	xiù	sleeve
宙	zhòu	space, time, space-time
鼬	yòu	weasel, mustela itatis
铀	yóu	uranium
釉	yòu	enamel, glaze
岫	xiù	mountain peak; cave, cavern
柚	yòu	grapefruit, pomelo
蚰	yóu	millipede
妯	zhóu	sister-in law
舳	zhú	the stern of a ship

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
中海油	zhōng hǎi yóu	China National Offshore Oil Corporation
石油化学	shí yóu huà xué	petrochemistry
开大油门	kāi dà yóu mén	to open the throttle; to accelerate; to let her rip
动物油	dòng wù yóu	animal fat
加大油门	jiā dà yóu mén	to accelerate; to step on the gas
三克油	sān kè yóu	thank you (humorous phonetic rendering of the English phrase)
老油子	lǎo yóu zi	(coll.) wily old fox; crafty fellow
油子	yóu zi	dense and sticky substance; (dialect) wily old fox
大油	dà yóu	lard
油水	yóu shuǐ	grease; profit; ill-gotten gains
化油器	huà yóu qì	carburetor
中油	Zhōng yóu	CPC Corporation, a state-owned petroleum company in Taiwan (abbr. for 台灣中油\|台湾中油[Tai2 wan1 …
合成石油	hé chéng shí yóu	synthetic oil
色拉油	sè lā yóu	salad oil
江油市	Jiāng yóu Shì	Jiangyou, a county-level city in Mianyang City 綿陽市\|绵阳市[Mian2 yang2 Shi4], Sichuan
火上加油	huǒ shàng jiā yóu	to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation; to enrage people and make m…
机油	jī yóu	engine oil
油花	yóu huā	grease or fat blobs at the surface of a liquid; tricky and dissolute
油气	yóu qì	oil and gas
油加利	yóu jiā lì	variant of 尤加利[you2 jia1 li4]