燃料
rán liào · HSK 4
fuel
⛽🔥 燃料 = 燃 burn + 料 material
燃 (rán) means burn or ignite; 料 (liào) means material or ingredient. Together: burn-material, i.e. fuel. The same 料 shows up in 材料 (material) and 饮料 (drink/beverage).
料 — rice 米 + dipper 斗
料 combines 米 (rice/grain) with 斗 (a measuring dipper), depicting the act of measuring out grain. From this concrete sense it extended to 'to measure, estimate, anticipate' and to 'materials' (things measured out for use), as in 材料 'materials' and 预料 'to anticipate'.