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柴油

chái yóu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

柴油 (chái yóu) means "diesel fuel". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 柴油 means

1. diesel fuel

The characters in 柴油

• 柴cháifirewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)
• 油yóuoil; fat; grease

Example sentences

• 这个取暖装置用柴油作为燃料。
  Zhège qǔnuǎn zhuāngzhì yòng cháiyóu zuòwéi ránliào.
  This heating equipment uses diesel as fuel.

Words starting with 柴油

• 柴油机chái yóu jīdiesel engine
• 柴油发动机chái yóu fā dòng jīdiesel engine

Words containing 柴油

• 生物柴油shēng wù chái yóubiodiesel

Where 柴油 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cǎo–chà (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chái yóu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.