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黄油, photo 1 of 3
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2023 Masło w maselniczce
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Jacek Halicki
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Butter at the Borough Market
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Charles Haynes from Bangalore, India
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Švédský koláč naruby 904 (cropped)
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Matěj Baťha
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黄油

黃油
huángyóu
noun #5,873

Measure Word

一块黄油 kuài

Meanings

  1. 1 butter

About the ingredient

奶制品 Dairy

Butter is used mainly for baking, Western dishes and spreading on bread. Hong Kong calls it 牛油, but on the mainland 牛油 usually means beef tallow, the fat of Chongqing hot pot.

Contains milk

Examples

HSK 1
请给我一块黄油。
Qǐng gěi wǒ yí kuài huángyóu.
Please give me a piece of butter.
HSK 7-9
这个面包上涂了黄油。
Zhège miànbāo shàng tú le huángyóu.
This bread has butter spread on it.

Tips

memory
黄 (yellow) + 油 (oil) = yellow oil = butter. Think of the yellow color of butter!

Stroke Order

黄 huáng
油 yóu