HanTrace

油漆

yóu qī

“Oil paints” in Chinese is 油漆 (yóu qī).

Meaning

  • oil paints
  • lacquer
  • to paint

Example

注意!油漆未乾

Caution! Wet Paint

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Measure words

桶
used for buckets of paint
一桶油漆 (a bucket of paint)

Characters

Not to be confused with: 尤其 (yóuqí, especially; particularly)