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What Gasoline is called around the World (i.redd.it)
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[–] viking@infosec.pub 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In China it's 汽油 which basically means "gas oil". It's a verbatim translation of gasoline.

[–] migriffin@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

while in Taiwan it's 石油, which basically means "rock/petr oil", verbatim translation of petrol

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 3 days ago

Gas oil in english would imply diesel.