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油水

yóu shuǐ

2-character word

What 油水 means

1. grease
2. profit
3. ill-gotten gains

The characters in 油水

• 油yóuoil; fat; grease
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Words containing 油水

• 捞油水lāo yóu shuǐ(colloquial) to gain profit (usu. by underhand means)

Sounds the same

Read yóu shuǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 游水to swim

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