油灯

油燈
yóudēng
noun #35,282

Measure Word

油灯 zhǎn

Meanings

  1. 1 oil lamp

Examples

Zǔmǔ diǎn qǐ yī zhǎn yóudēng zuò zhēnxiàn huó.
Grandmother lit an oil lamp to do needlework.
Tíngdiàn de wǎnshàng, quánjiā wéi zhe yóudēng chīfàn.
On the night of the power outage, the whole family gathered around the oil lamp for dinner.

Tips

culture
The classic (zhǎn) measure word fits 油灯 because traditional oil lamps were shallow saucers () holding wick + oil. This is also why means 'a small dish of tea' — same shape, same measure.

Stroke Order

yóu
dēng