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Butter and Knive
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Julikalucky
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2023 Masło w maselniczce
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Jacek Halicki
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Butter at the Borough Market
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Charles Haynes from Bangalore, India
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奶油

nǎiyóu
noun #4,043

Measure Word

一块奶油 kuài

Meanings

  1. 1 cream
  2. 2 butter

About the ingredient

奶制品 Dairy

Dairy cream, whipped for cakes and stirred into soups and sauces. Many bakery cakes use cheaper non-dairy 植物奶油 instead, so bakers call real cream 动物奶油. In Taiwan and in Chinese food standards, 奶油 means butter.

Contains milk

Also called  忌廉

Examples

HSK 3
Zhège dàngāo shàngmiàn yǒu hěnduō nǎiyóu.
This cake has a lot of cream on top.
HSK 3
Qǐng gěi wǒ yì bēi jiā nǎiyóu de kāfēi.
Please give me a coffee with cream.

Tips

usage
奶油 can mean both cream and butter depending on context. For clarity, butter is often called 黄油 in mainland China.

Stroke Order

奶 nǎi
油 yóu