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HSK
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
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  *油* | 油* | *油
oil / fat / grease / petroleum / to apply tung oil, paint or varnish / oily / greasy / glib / cunning
HSK 2
oil / petroleum
HSK 3
to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night
HSK 6
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  *桶* | 桶* | *桶
bucket / (trash) can / barrel (of oil etc) / CL: 個|个, 隻|只
HSK 7-9
fuel oil
HSK 7-9
to explore / to survey / to prospect (for oil etc) / prospecting
HSK 7-9
sesame oil / perfumed oil
HSK 7-9
oil painting
HSK 7-9
oil (petroleum) price
grease / oil / fat
remaining quantity / reserves (of natural resources, oil etc)
sesame oil
engine oil
oilseed / oil / fuel
crude oil
greasy dirt / sludge (from an oil spill)
oil paints / lacquer / to paint / CL: 層|层
oil pipe / (slang) YouTube
(oil) blowout / surge / gush
to drill (e.g. for oil) / a borehole
(petrochemistry) heavy oil / fuel oil
oil spill; oil leak / (fig.) boo! (opposite of 加油)
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  *焌* | 焌* | *焌
to extinguish a burning object / to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one's trousers with a cigarette) / to stir-fry / to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food
oil and gas
essential oil
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  *炷* | 炷* | *炷
wick of an oil lamp / to burn (incense etc) / classifier for lit incense sticks
to press / to squeeze / to extract juice, oil etc by squeezing
piping (for water, oil, etc) / conduit
cooking oil
to extract oil from vegetables / to press
to refine / refining (e.g. oil, chemicals etc)
to crack (fractionally distill oil)
oil extraction / oil recovery
smallpox / ceiling / stamen of corn / (old) snow / (dialect) sesame oil
essential balm containing menthol, eucalyptus oil etc, used as a mosquito repellant
oil refinery
lit. oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
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)
cover of lamp / lampshade / glass cover of oil lamp
lantern / uncovered oil lamp
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
soy bean oil / (dialect) soy sauce
lit. to add oil and vinegar (idiom) / fig. to embellish; to exaggerate (a story, a narration etc)
oil well
cod liver oil
oil sand (mining)
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  *蓖* | 蓖* | *蓖
the castor-oil plant
coconut oil
poor in oil
vegetable cooking oil
Chevron (oil company)
oil palm
Unocal (US oil company)
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  *欃* | 欃* | *欃
sandalwood (Santalum album), a Nepalese tree producing valuable fragrant oil / comet
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  *煠* | 煠* | *煠
to fry in fat or oil / to scald
to explore / to survey / to prospect (for oil etc) / prospecting
to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
containing oil / oil-bearing
oil massage
to extract (juice, oil etc) on the spot; freshly squeezed
Sichuan poached sliced fish in hot chili oil
oil shale
vegetable oil
to stir-fry in a small quantity of oil
Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
lubricating oil
palm oil
to oil / to anoint
peppermint oil
oil refinery
illegally recycled waste cooking oil
oil shortage
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  *炝* | 炝* | *炝
to briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc / to briefly stir-fry (meat, chopped spring onions etc), then add to other ingredients and cook further
oil tanker truck / fuel tanker
Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan (1979)
Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese-trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
fuel oil
aniline oil
oil sump
fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas)
China National Offshore Oil Corporation
salad oil
imported oil / kerosene
country poor in oil
bath oil
to stir-fry with oil only (no addition of water)
to pour heated oil and seasonings over food (e.g. a cooked fish)
mugwort leaf oil (TCM) / also called wormwood leaf oil / Oleum folii Artemisiae argyi
CNOOC; China National Offshore Oil Corporation
lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom); fig. ambitious student from impoverished background / burning the midnight oil
(oil) drilling platform
synthetic oil
Shell (oil company)
a type of rapeseed (Brassica rapa) cultivated for its edible leaves (including varieties like bok choy and choy sum), as well as for oil production and green manure
dipstick / oil measuring rod

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