柏baak3油jau4

English

1. asphalt
2. tar
3. pitch
4. bitumen, originally means coal tar, nowadays bitumen is widely used in road construction instead of coal tar due to toxicity, the term 柏油 (coal tar) is still misused to refer to 瀝青 (bitumen) in Chineseunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 原指煤焦油；以前常用嘅鋪路材料，因為有毒關係而家只係用瀝青鋪路，只係習慣上叫瀝青路做柏油路unreviewed?

Examples

• 這條街鋪上了柏油。

  The street is paved with asphalt.

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