Illustration: Outside the open utility doorway of a Japanese house in winter, an adult uses a hand siphon pump to transfer fuel from a rectangular plastic kerosene can into a portable heater's removable tank. The unlit heater is visible inside with its tank compartment open.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

灯とう油ゆ

touyu

kerosene

Example sentences

  1. 灯油とうゆの販売車はんばいしゃが来きた。

    A truck selling kerosene came.

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  2. 灯油とうゆみたいな臭においがするよ。

    It smells like kerosene.

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  3. このストーブは灯油とうゆを使用しようします。

    This stove uses kerosene.

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Kanji in 灯油

  • 灯lamp; a lightOnトウKunひ・ほ-・ともしび
  • 油oil; fatOnユ・ユウKunあぶら

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