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油漆

yóu qī

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

油漆 (yóu qī) means "oil paints; lacquer; to paint". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 油漆 means

1. oil paints
2. lacquer
3. to paint

The characters in 油漆

• 油yóuoil; fat; grease
• 漆qīpaint; lacquer; to paint (furniture, walls etc)

Example sentences

• 注意！油漆未干
  Caution! Wet Paint
• 油漆从墙上脱落。
  The paint was coming off the wall.
• 这座桥正被重新油漆。
  Zhè zuò qiáo zhèng bèi chóngxīn yóuqī.
  The bridge is being repainted.
• 我必须把它漆上油漆。
  I have to paint it.
• 我让他油漆了这个栅栏。
  Wǒ ràng tā yóuqī le zhège zhàlán.
  I got him to paint the fence.
• 油漆我们的房子。使用橙色的油漆。
  Yóuqī wǒmen de fángzi. shǐyòng chéngsè de yóuqī.
  Paint our house. Use the orange paint.

Where 油漆 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yòu–yǔ (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 yóu qī correctly.
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