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油门yóu mén
accelerator
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 油门 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 油門 | ||
| 油門 | yóumén | |
| 1. n. accelerator; gas pedal; throttle | ||
| 踩 油門 - to step on the accelerator | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| accelerator | ||
| 1. 名词. 油门 | ||
| 2. 名词. 加速器 | ||
| 3. 名词. 加速者 | ||
| Components | ||
| 油 | yóu | |
| 1. name of an ancient river | ||
| 2. oil: fat, grease, lard, etc. | ||
| 麻油 - sesame oil | ||
| 豬油 - lard | ||
| 機油 - engine oil | ||
| 炒 菜 要 落 油。 - You need to add oil when you stir-fry vegetables. | ||
| 3. petroleum; fuel | ||
| 石油 - petroleum; oil | ||
| 漏油jau4-2 - to leak fuel | ||
| 加油 - to refuel | ||
| 油站 - petrol station; gas station | ||
| 4. to paint | ||
| 油 屋 - to paint the house | ||
| 5. (Cantonese) Short for 油漆, paint, tr=- | ||
| 啲 油jau4-2 未 乾 呀。 - The paint hasn't dried yet. | ||
| 油油jau4-2 - to apply paint | ||
| 6. (Cantonese) to colour (with crayons, coloured pencils, oil pastel, etc.) | ||
| 老師 將 弟dai6-4弟dai6-2 油 嗰 幅 畫 貼堂。 - The teacher posted the picture that my brother coloured on the board. | ||
| 7. (Cantonese) Short for 油門, accelerator; gas pedal; throttle | ||
| 踩油jau4-2 - to hit the gas; to accelerate | ||
| 8. (Cantonese) oily | ||
| 9. to be grease-stained | ||
| 10. sly; glib | ||
| 11. vigorous, abundant | ||
| 12. shiny | ||
| 13. sweet-tempered, acquiescent | ||
| 14. flippant and insincere | ||
| 15. dark | ||
| 16. (chiefly Taiwan originally ACG slang) resembling a weeb; obsessive towards ACG | ||
| 17. Used in 浩油 | ||
| 门 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 門 | ||
| 門 | mén | |
| 1. gate; door; entrance; opening; portal | ||
| 2. valve; switch | ||
| 3. way of doing something; knack | ||
| 門路 - way of doing something | ||
| 4. family | ||
| 5. school; sect; school of thought; tradition | ||
| 佛門 - Buddhism | ||
| 門生 - disciple of a particular tradition | ||
| 6. class; category | ||
| 7. (taxonomy) phylum; division | ||
| 8. (logic, electronics) logic gate | ||
| 這 門 生意 不好 做。 - It's a tough business. | ||
| 你 這 一 門 心思，誰 猜-得 到？ - Who could have guessed all that in your mind? | ||
| 說 成 一 門 親事 - to successfully make a match | ||
| 9. -gate (a suffix combined with keywords to form the names of scandals) | ||
| 10. (anatomy) hilum of an organ | ||
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Pronunciation
yóu mén
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