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黄油huáng yóu
butter
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 黄油 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 黃油 | ||
| 黃油 | huángyóu | |
| 1. n. grease | ||
| 2. n. butter | ||
| 3. n. (ACG, neologism, slang) eroge | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| butter | ||
| 1. 名词. 中國大陸:黄油、牛油 | ||
| 2. 名词. 臺灣:奶油 | ||
| Components | ||
| 黄 | ||
| 1. Variant of 黃 | ||
| 黃 | huáng | |
| 1. yellow (colour) | ||
| 黃色 (huángsè) - yellow color | ||
| 2. yolk | ||
| 雙黃wong4-2 白蓮 蓉 月餅 - double yolk and lotus paste mooncake | ||
| 3. Short for 蟹黃 | ||
| 4. yellow; Far East Asian | ||
| 5. (colloquial) pornographic; lewd | ||
| 黃片 (huángpiàn) - adult movie | ||
| 6. (colloquial) to fizzle out; to fall through | ||
| 某些 公司 真 是shi 絕 了，收 啥 黃 啥。 (Mǒuxiē gōngsī zhēn shi jué le, shōu shá huáng shá.) - Some companies are really sucktastic; whatever they purchase flops. | ||
| 這zhèi.次 旅遊 的 興致zhi 讓 扒手兒r 給 攪 黃 了。 (Zhèi cì lǚyóu de xìngzhi ràng páshǒur gěi jiǎo huáng le.) - The high spirit of this trip was ruined by a pickpocket., M-UIB | ||
| 7. (Cantonese) to let the cat out of the bag (to let a secret be known) | ||
| 8. (Hong Kong, politics) supportive of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement | ||
| 9. (Min Nan) to ripen | ||
| 10. Short for 黃帝 | ||
| 11. Short for 黃河, Yellow River | ||
| 黃 宗-羲 (Huáng Zōngxī) - Huang Zongxi (Chinese intellectual and political theorist that lived during the latter part of the Ming dynasty into the early part of the Qing) | ||
| 黃Ûiⁿ 蕙Hūi-蘭 (Ûiⁿ Hūi-lân) - Oei Hui-lan (a Chinese-Indonesian socialite and First Lady of the Republic of China), MN | ||
| 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 | ||
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Pronunciation
huáng yóu
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