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油画

yóu huà

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 油畫

油画 (yóu huà) means "oil painting". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 油画 means

1. oil painting

The characters in 油画

• 油yóuoil; fat; grease
• 画huàto draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划

Example sentences

• 他喜欢画油画。
  He enjoys painting oil paintings.
• 我喜欢画油画，但是我不想拿它做我的终身职业。
  Wǒ xǐhuan huà yóuhuà, dànshì wǒ bù xiǎng ná tā zuò wǒ de zhōngshēn zhíyè.
  I like to do oil painting, but I don't intend to make that my lifelong occupation.

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