油管

yóuguǎn
noun #22,835

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 oil pipe
  2. 2 oil tube
  3. 3 (slang) YouTube

Examples

Gōngrén zhèngzài pūshè xīn de yóuguǎn.
Workers are laying new oil pipes.
Tā zài yóuguǎn shàng kàn le hěn duō xué Zhōngwén de shìpín.
He watched a lot of Chinese-learning videos on YouTube.

Tips

usage
油管 as slang for YouTube ( = oil, = tube → oil tube → YouTube) is widely used in mainland Chinese internet culture. The official transliteration is (Yōutù) but 油管 is the dominant informal term.

Stroke Order

yóu
guǎn