HSK 6 · Food

油腻 yóunì “greasy” in Chinese

Traditional 油膩

What 油腻 means

  1. greasy
  2. oily (food)
  3. greasy food
  4. (of food) greasy
  5. oily
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • fatty

How to say 油腻

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale油yóu2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale腻nì4th tone, falling

油腻 in a sentence

  1. 我不喜欢油腻的饮食。

    Wǒ bù xǐhuan yóunì de yǐnshí.

    I don’t like greasy food.

    Sentence #636193 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 油腻 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 油 (yóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
油yóuoil
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 由cause · yóuSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 由 (yóu) hints at the sound. Compare it with yóu.

The character 腻 (nì) with each of its parts in a different colour
腻nìgreasy
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 贰two (bankers' anti-fraud numeral) · èrSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 贰 (èr) hints at the sound. Compare it with nì.

How to write 油腻

油 8 strokes · 腻 13 strokes

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油腻 (yóunì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 油腻 (yóunì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 油腻

Words with 油

油yóu · oil加油jiāyóu · to cheer on加油站jiāyóuzhàn · petrol station酱油jiàngyóu · soy sauce油炸yóuzhá · to deep fry汽油qìyóu · petrol石油shíyóu · oil柴油cháiyóu · diesel油漆yóuqī · paint

More words: Food & Dining

冰激凌bīngjīlíng · ice cream叉子chāzi · fork馅儿xiànr · filling腥xīng · fishy (smell or taste)酗酒xùjiǔ · to drink heavily饮食yǐnshí · diet粥zhōu · porridge滋味zīwèi · taste

FAQs

油腻 (yóunì) means “greasy” or “oily (food)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yóunì: yóu with a 2nd tone, then nì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 油腻 is written 油膩. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youni with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 油腻 from the suggestions. Typing youni into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
油腻 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.