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crude oil
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
fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas)
shale oil
light petroleum (product) / gasoline and diesel oil
boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste
containing oil / oil-bearing
olive oil
(oil) blowout / surge / gush
China National Offshore Oil Corporation
smallpox / ceiling / stamen of corn / (old) snow / (dialect) sesame oil
to explore / to survey / to prospect (for oil etc) / prospecting
HSK 7-9
to store / deposit / (oil, mineral etc) deposits
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
CNOOC; China National Offshore Oil Corporation
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
remaining quantity / reserves (of natural resources, oil etc)
oil painting
HSK 7-9
refined oil
oil well
soy bean oil / (dialect) soy sauce
to press / to squeeze / to extract juice, oil etc by squeezing
oil refinery
Shell (oil company)
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  *油* | 油* | *油
oil / fat / grease / petroleum / to apply tung oil, paint or varnish / oily / greasy / glib / cunning
HSK 2
lit. to add oil and vinegar (idiom) / fig. to embellish; to exaggerate (a story, a narration etc)
to stir-fry in a small quantity of oil
to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night
HSK 6
palm oil
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  *桶* | 桶* | *桶
bucket / (trash) can / barrel (of oil etc) / CL: 個|个, 隻|只
HSK 7-9
vegetable cooking oil
to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse
to crack (fractionally distill oil)
oil extraction / oil recovery
sesame oil / perfumed oil
HSK 7-9
to pour oil on the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse
illegally recycled waste cooking oil
imported oil / kerosene
Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese-trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration
dripping with oil
oil paints / lacquer / to paint / CL: 層|层
oil-producing countries
volatile oil (in general) / gasoline
oil and gas
to explore / to survey / to prospect (for oil etc) / prospecting
aniline oil
oil crop (rape, peanut, soy, sesame etc) / oil-bearing crop
fuel oil
HSK 7-9
to drill (e.g. for oil) / a borehole
oil sand (mining)
oil tanker
melting point (of lubricating oil)
oil spill; oil leak / (fig.) boo! (opposite of 加油)
oil / petroleum
HSK 3
chili oil
coconut oil
oil palm
light petroleum product (i.e. gasoline and diesel oil)
to extract (juice, oil etc) on the spot; freshly squeezed
oil bearing rock
to oil / to anoint
vegetable oil
oil pipe / (slang) YouTube
rapeseed oil; canola oil
essential balm containing menthol, eucalyptus oil etc, used as a mosquito repellant
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
pesto (sauce made with basil, garlic, olive oil, pine nuts and cheese)
oil tanker truck / fuel tanker
to extract oil from vegetables / to press
oilseed / oil / fuel
Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii)
dipstick / oil measuring rod
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *欃* | 欃* | *欃
sandalwood (Santalum album), a Nepalese tree producing valuable fragrant oil / comet
chrism / holy anointing oil
lit. oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
fuel oil
oil shortage
rapeseed oil; canola oil
(of food) to absorb oil / (of a vehicle) to guzzle fuel
eucalyptus oil
engine oil
oil lamp
oil refinery
virgin olive oil
Sichuan poached sliced fish in hot chili oil
essential oil
cooking oil / food oil
sesame oil
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)
greasy dirt / sludge (from an oil spill)
cover of lamp / lampshade / glass cover of oil lamp
piping (for water, oil, etc) / conduit
cooking oil
(oil) drilling platform
oil (petroleum) price
oil sump
oil field
Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan (1979)
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  *炷* | 炷* | *炷
wick of an oil lamp / to burn (incense etc) / classifier for lit incense sticks
to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day

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