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汽油

qì yóu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

汽油 (qì yóu) means "gasoline". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 汽油 means

1. gasoline

The characters in 汽油

• 汽qìsteam; vapor
• 油yóuoil; fat; grease

Example sentences

• 没汽油了。
  Méi qìyóu le.
  We ran out of gas.
• 我很确定我们有足够好的汽油回家。
  Wǒ hěn quèdìng wǒmen yǒu zúgòu hǎo de qìyóu huíjiā.
  I'm pretty sure that we have enough gas to get home.
• 越来越多的环保者开始宣传和使用环保的无铅汽油的汽车。
  Yuèláiyuè duō de huánbǎo zhě kāishǐ xuānchuán hé shǐyòng huánbǎo de wú qiān qìyóu de qìchē.
  More and more environmentalists advocate and use environmentally friendly unleaded petrol in cars.
• 越来越多的环保者开始宣传和使用以环保的无铅汽油为燃料的汽车。
  More and more environmentalists advocate and use environmentally friendly unleaded petrol in cars.

Words starting with 汽油

• 汽油机qì yóu jīgasoline engine

Words containing 汽油

• 凝固汽油弹níng gù qì yóu dànnapalm

Where 汽油 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Vehicles, Materials & Transport (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 qì yóu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.