油

Stroke order

Stroke order (Japan)

油 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水中田 (ELW), four-corner 3516₀, composition ⿰氵由)

• 𠶢, 𣓐, 𰃑, 𭳂, 𫈜, 𩭶

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 614, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17253
• Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1585, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6CB9

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 油 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 油 (Cantonese)
• 油 (Classical)
• iû (Southern Min)
• 油 (Wu)

Historical forms of the character 油
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lɯw, *lɯwɢs): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 由 (OC *lɯw).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

“weeb”

From the stereotype of weebs (see 肥宅 (féizhái)).

油

1. name of an ancient river
2. oil: fat, grease, lard, etc.

   麻油  ―  máyóu  ―  sesame oil

   豬油／猪油  ―  zhūyóu  ―  lard

   機油／机油  ―  jīyóu  ―  engine oil

   炒菜要落油。

   caau² coi³ jiu³ lok⁶ jau⁴.

   You need to add oil when you stir-fry vegetables.

3. petroleum; fuel

   石油  ―  shíyóu  ―  petroleum; oil

   漏油   ―  lau⁶ jau^4-2   ―  to leak fuel

   加油  ―  jiāyóu  ―  to refuel

   油站   ―  jau⁴ zaam⁶   ―  petrol station; gas station

4. to paint

   油屋   ―  jau⁴ uk¹   ―  to paint the house

5. (Cantonese) short for 油漆 (“paint”)

   啲油未乾呀。
   啲油未干呀。

   di¹ jau^4-2 mei⁶ gon¹ aa³.

   The paint hasn't dried yet.

   油油   ―  jau⁴ jau^4-2   ―  to apply paint

6. (Cantonese) to colour (with crayons, coloured pencils, oil pastel, etc.)

   老師將弟弟油嗰幅畫貼堂。
   老师将弟弟油嗰幅画贴堂。

   lou⁵ si¹ zoeng¹ dai^6-4 dai^6-2 jau⁴ go² fuk¹ waa² tip³ tong⁴.

   The teacher posted the picture that my brother coloured on the board.

7. (Cantonese) short for 油門／油门 (yóumén, “accelerator; gas pedal; throttle”)

   踩油   ―  caai² jau^4-2   ―  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, sometimes self-deprecatory) resembling a weeb; obsessive towards ACG

    好油喔peko～  ―  hǎo yóu ō peko ~  ―  You're such a weeb peko~ (a self-deprecatory phrase among the Hololive fandom, where “peko” is the catchprase of its VTuber Usada Pekora)

17. a surname

• → Vietnamese: dầu (𪽠)

油

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 釉 (yòu, “to glaze”)
2. used in 浩油

• “油”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “油”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “油”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 289.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: ゆ (yu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
• Kun: あぶら (abura, 油, Jōyō)

油 (eumhun 기름 유 (gireum yu))

1. hanja form^? of 유 (“oil”)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: あんだー (andā, 油)

Cognate with Japanese 油 (abura).

油(あんだー) (andā) 

1. oil

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: あっゔぁ (avva, 油)

Cognate with Japanese 油 (abura).

• IPA^(key): /avva/, /aʋva/, /aʋʋa/

油 (hiragana あっゔぁ, romaji avva)

1. oil

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: あんだ (anda, 油)

Cognate with Japanese 油 (abura).

• IPA^(key):

油(あんだ) or 油(あんだー) (anda or andā) 

1. oil; petroleum; fuel

• “あんだ【油】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.
• “あんだー【油】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

油: Hán Việt readings: du
油: Nôm readings: dầu, dàu, dàu, rầu, ru, dù, râu, trầu, dư, dẫu

1. chữ Hán form of du (“oil”)
2. chữ Nôm form of dầu (“oil”)

• 油𫗒 (dầu ăn)