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原料

yuán liào

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

原料 (yuán liào) means "raw material". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 原料 means

1. raw material

The characters in 原料

• 原yuánformer; original; primary
• 料liàomaterial; stuff; grain

Example sentences

• 日本依赖进口原料。
  Japan depends on imports for raw materials.
• 日本从国外进口各种原料。
  Rìběn cóng guówài jìnkǒu gèzhǒng yuánliào.
  Japan imports various raw materials from abroad.
• 塑料代替了许多传统的原料。
  Sùliào dàitì le xǔduō chuántǒng de yuánliào.
  Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.
• 这座巧克力工厂每一天消耗二十公吨可可原料。
  This chocolate factory consumes twenty metric tons of raw cocoa per day.
• 饼干中可能含有坚果或花生，即使没被列入原料配方中。
  Bǐnggān zhōng kěnéng hányǒu jiānguǒ huò huāshēng, jíshǐ méi bèi lièrù yuánliào pèifāng zhōng.
  Cookies may contain nuts or peanuts, even if not included in the ingredient list.

Words containing 原料

• 核原料hé yuán liàonuclear material

Where 原料 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Hesitation, Pre-planning & Raw Materials (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yuán liào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.