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白
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白 bái white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
Results beginning with 白
白色 bái sè white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist
白天 bái tiān daytime / during the day / day / CL:個|个[ge4]
白领 bái lǐng white-collar / white-collar worker
白云 bái yún white cloud
白痴 bái chī idiocy / idiot
白白 bái bái in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
白发 bái fà white or gray hair / CL:根[gen1]
白金 bái jīn platinum / silver / (slang) handcuffs
白酒 bái jiǔ baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒[bai2 pu2 tao5 jiu3])
白银 bái yín silver
白宫 Bái gōng White House
白马 bái mǎ white horse
白皙 bái xī (of complexion or skin) fair and clear
白虎 Bái hǔ White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
白菜 bái cài Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:棵[ke1],個|个[ge4]
白眼 bái yǎn to give sb a dirty look / to cast a supercilious glance / a disdainful look
白糖 bái táng (refined) white sugar
白费 bái fèi to waste (one's energy etc)
白水 bái shuǐ plain water
白骨 bái gǔ bones of the dead
白人 bái rén white man or woman / Caucasian
白嫩 bái nèn (of skin etc) fair / delicate
白昼 bái zhòu daytime
白日 bái rì daytime / sun / time
白头 bái tóu hoary head / old age
白羊 Bái yáng Aries (star sign)
白板 bái bǎn whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
白带 bái dài leukorrhea
白布 bái bù plain white cloth / calico
白话 bái huà spoken language / vernacular
白净 bái jìng (of skin) fair and clear
白杨 bái yáng poplar / CL:棵[ke1]
白鹤 bái hè (bird species of China) Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus)
白道 bái dào (astronomy) the moon's path around the earth / legitimate, lawful activities (contrasted with 黑道[hei1dao4]) / law-abiding citizenry
白吃 bái chī to eat without paying / to eat for free
白鹭 bái lù (bird species of China) little egret (Egretta garzetta)
白沫 bái mò froth / foam (coming from the mouth)
白面 bái miàn wheat flour / flour / heroin
白族 Bái zú Bai (ethnic group)
白莲 bái lián white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教
白蚁 bái yǐ termite / white ant
白兔 bái tù white rabbit / (fig.) (slang) breast
白粉 bái fěn face powder / chalk powder / heroin
白狐 bái hú arctic fox
白果 bái guǒ ginkgo
白露 bái lù Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 / 8th-22nd September
白术 bái zhú the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes (Atractylodes macrocephaia)
白条 bái tiáo IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
白芷 bái zhǐ Dahurian angelica (Angelica dahurica) / root of Dahurian angelica (used in TCM)
白饭 bái fàn plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
白旗 bái qí white flag
白搭 bái dā no use / no good
白活 bái huó to waste one's life / to fail to make the most of one's life
白脸 bái liǎn white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
白瓷 bái cí blanc de chine (porcelain)
白米 bái mǐ (polished) rice
白夜 bái yè white night
白线 bái xiàn white line (road markings)
白字 bái zì wrongly written or mispronounced character
白芍 bái sháo root of herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora), used in TCM
白肉 bái ròu plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc)
白醋 bái cù white vinegar / plain vinegar
白佛 bái fó to ask Buddha
白鲸 bái jīng beluga whale
白描 bái miáo line drawing in traditional ink-and-brush style / simple and straightforward style of writing
白刃 bái rèn naked sword
白文 bái wén the text of an annotated book / an unannotated edition of a book / intagliated characters (on a seal)
白蜡 bái là white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
白熊 bái xióng polar bear / white bear
白铁 bái tiě galvanized iron
白班 bái bān day shift
白霜 bái shuāng hoar frost
白卷 bái juàn blank exam paper
白喉 bái hóu diphtheria
白薯 bái shǔ sweet potato
白俄 Bái é Belarus / abbr. for 白俄羅斯|白俄罗斯[Bai2 e2 luo2 si1]
白铜 bái tóng copper-nickel alloy
白种 bái zhǒng the white race
白垩 bái è chalk
白炽 bái chì white heat / incandescence
白热 bái rè white heat / incandescence
白军 Bái jūn White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
白痢 bái lì dysentery characterized by white mucous stool / white diarrhea
白矾 bái fán alum
白浊 bái zhuó gonorrhea (TCM term) / more commonly known as 淋病[lin4 bing4]
白读 bái dú colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
白鹳 bái guàn (bird species of China) white stork (Ciconia ciconia)
白磷 bái lín white phosphorus
白区 bái qū White area (area controlled by the KMT during the Second Revolutionary War 1927-1937)
白鹰  Beli Orlovi / White Eagles
白盔  White Helmets
白碑 bái bēi stone tablet without inscription / blank stele
白车 bái chē ambulance (slang) (Cantonese)
白城 Bái chéng see 白城市[Bai2cheng2 Shi4]
白癡 bái chī idiocy / idiot / variant of 白痴
白电 bái diàn white goods (abbr. for 白色家電|白色家电[bai2se4 jia1dian4])
白洞 bái dòng white hole (cosmology)
白匪 bái fěi white bandit (i.e. Nationalist soldier)
白附 bái fù white aconite
白钢 bái gāng steel
白鬼 bái guǐ "white ghost", derogatory term for caucasians (Cantonese)
白海 Bái Hǎi White Sea
白河 Bái hé Baihe County in Ankang 安康[An1 kang1], Shaanxi / Paiho town in Tainan County 台南縣|台南县[Tai2 nan2 xian4], Taiwan
白鹄 bái hú (white) swan
白拣 bái jiǎn a cheap choice / to choose sth that costs nothing
白简 Bái jiǎn Wrigley's Spearmint (brand)
白镴 bái là pewter / solder
白烂 bái làn (slang) stupid / ridiculous
白朗 Bái lǎng Bainang county, Tibetan: Pa snam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
白蔹 bái liǎn Ampelopsis japonica (creeper with root used in TCM)
白蛉 bái líng sand fly
白毛 bái máo white hair (of animals) / see also 白髮|白发[bai2 fa4]
白茅 bái máo cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
白煤 bái méi anthracite / hard coal / white coal / waterpower
白目 bái mù (slang) stupid / moron
白奴 bái nú white-collar slave (office worker who is overworked and exploited)
白牌 bái pái (of a product) unbranded
白砒 bái pī white arsenic / arsenic trioxide
白嫖 bái piáo to visit a prostitute without paying / (slang) to consume a service without paying
白票 bái piào blank vote / abstention
白朴 Bái Pǔ Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
白起 Bái Qǐ Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 / in 260 BC / same as 公孫起|公孙起
白饶 bái ráo to give sth extra free of charge / (coll.) in vain / to no avail
白沙 Bái shā Baisha (common place name) / Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan / Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县[Peng2 hu2 xian4] (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
白山 Bái shān see 白山市[Bai2shan1 Shi4]
白事 bái shì funeral / to explain (literary)
白苏 bái sū common perilla
白汤 bái tāng clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤[nai3 tang1] / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
白陶 bái táo white pottery (of Shang Dynastry 16-11th century BC)
白体 bái tǐ lean type
白厅 Bái tīng Whitehall
白托 bái tuō day care for the elderly (abbr. of 白天托管[bai2 tian1 tuo1 guan3]) / to be blinded by greed / swindler (homonym of 拜託|拜托[bai4 tuo1])
白脱 bái tuō (loanword) butter
白下 Bái xià Baixia district of Nanjing City 南京市 / in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
白瞎 bái xiā (dialect) to waste (effort, money etc)
白苋 bái xiàn white amaranth (Amaranthus albus) / sprouts and tender leaves of Chinese spinach (Amaranthus spp.) used as food
白鹇 bái xián (bird species of China) silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera)
白雪 bái xuě snow
白翳 bái yì opacity of the cornea (in TCM) / cataract
白鱼 bái yú whitefish
白玉 bái yù white jade / tofu (by analogy)
白泽 Bái Zé Bai Ze or White Marsh, legendary creature of ancient China
白粥 bái zhōu plain rice congee
白住 bái zhù to live (somewhere) for free
白撞 bái zhuàng (car) accident where the driver is not held responsible
白灼 bái zhuó to blanch (thin slices of vegetables, fish etc)
白子 bái zǐ white Go chess piece / bee pupa / albino
白左 bái zuǒ naive, self-righteous Western liberals (neologism c. 2015)
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白血病 bái xuè bìng leukemia
白羊座 Bái yáng zuò Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
Approximate Results for 白
明白 míng bai clear / obvious / unequivocal / sensible / reasonable / to understand / to realize
空白 kòng bái blank space
黑白 hēi bái black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
苍白 cāng bái pale / wan
蛋白 dàn bái egg white / protein / albumen
美白 měi bái to whiten (the skin or teeth)
雪白 xuě bái snow white
对白 duì bái dialogue (in a movie or a play)
洁白 jié bái spotlessly white / pure white
表白 biǎo bái to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
坦白 tǎn bái honest / forthcoming / to confess
告白 gào bái to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
李白 Lǐ Bái Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
清白 qīng bái pure / innocent
惨白 cǎn bái deathly pale
发白 fā bái to turn pale / to lose color / to go white
独白 dú bái stage monologue / soliloquy
纯白 chún bái pure white
自白 zì bái confession / to make clear one's position or intentions / to brag
灰白 huī bái ash-colored
漂白 piǎo bái to bleach / to whiten
直白 zhí bái to speak frankly / frank / open / blunt
银白 yín bái silver white
花白 huā bái grizzled (hair)
旁白 páng bái aside (theater) / voice-over / background narration
煞白 shà bái deathly white
平白 píng bái for no reason / gratuitously
青白 qīng bái pale / pallor
泛白 fàn bái to be suffused with white / faded / bleached / to blanch
乳白 rǔ bái milky white / cream color
斑白 bān bái grizzled / graying
辩白 biàn bái to offer an explanation / to plead innocence / to try to defend oneself
眼白 yǎn bái white of the eye
抢白 qiǎng bái to rebuke / to reprimand
茭白 jiāo bái Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
剖白 pōu bái to explain oneself
露白 lòu bái to reveal one's valuables inadvertently / to betray one's silver (money) when traveling
补白 bǔ bái to fill a gap (e.g. a gap in knowledge or blank space in a print layout) / to make some additional remarks / filler (in a newspaper or magazine)
皓白 hào bái snow-white / spotless
半白 bàn bái fifty (years of age)
班白 bān bái variant of 斑白[ban1 bai2]
颁白 bān bái variant of 斑白[ban1 bai2]
博白 Bó bái Bobai county in Yulin 玉林[Yu4 lin2], Guangxi
长白 Cháng bái Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
葱白 cōng bái the white part of a green onion or scallion
搭白 dā bái to answer
答白 dā bái to answer
大白 dà bái to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白)
道白 dào bái spoken lines in opera
电白 Diàn bái Dianbai county in Maoming 茂名, Guangdong
靛白 diàn bái indigo white
反白 fǎn bái reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
关白 guān bái to inform / to notify
建白 jiàn bái to propose / to suggest / to state a view
皎白 jiǎo bái bright white
精白 jīng bái pure white / spotlessly white
口白 kǒu bái narrator / spoken parts in an opera
蓝白 lán bái GD
留白 liú bái to leave a message / to leave some empty space in a work of art / to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
涅白 niè bái opaque white
浅白 qiǎn bái simple / easy to understand
散白 sǎn bái bulk baijiu (i.e. clear Chinese liquor) (abbr. for 散裝白酒|散装白酒[san3zhuang1 bai2jiu3])
霜白 shuāng bái frosty
宋白 Sòng bái Song Bai (936-1012), Northern Song literary man
太白 Tài bái Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bao3 ji1], Shaanxi / Venus
显白 xiǎn bai variant of 顯擺|显摆[xian3 bai5]
小白 xiǎo bái (slang) novice / greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool / idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy
洗白 xǐ bái to make sth clean and white / (fig.) to whitewash / to launder money
牙白 yá bái creamy white / ivory color
韵白 yùn bái form of rhymed baihua 白話|白话[bai2 hua4] in Beijing opera
斫白 zhuó bái to strip bark
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不明白 bù míng bái does not understand / fails to realize (intuitively) what is going on
蛋白质 dàn bái zhì protein
长白山 Cháng bái shān Changbai or Baekdu mountains 白頭山|白头山, volcanic mountain range between Jilin province and North Korea, prominent in Manchu and Korean mythology
说白了 shuō bái le to speak frankly
乳白色 rǔ bái sè milky white
小白兔 xiǎo bái tù small white rabbit / (fig.) innocent and naive person / (fig.) (slang) breast
翻白眼 fān bái yǎn to roll one's eyes
大白菜 dà bái cài Chinese cabbage / napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / CL:棵[ke1]
开场白 kāi chǎng bái prologue of play / opening remarks / preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
大白天 dà bái tiān broad daylight
小白脸 xiǎo bái liǎn attractive young man (usually derog.) / pretty boy / gigolo
灰白色 huī bái sè ash gray
球蛋白 qiú dàn bái globulin
小白菜 xiǎo bái cài bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:棵[ke1]
大白鲨 dà bái shā great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
蛋白酶 dàn bái méi protease
齐白石 Qí Bái shí Qi Baishi (1864-1957), famous Chinese painter
脂蛋白 zhī dàn bái lipoprotein
汉白玉 hàn bái yù white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
小白鼠 xiǎo bái shǔ white mouse / lab mouse / lab rat / (fig.) human guinea pig
增白剂 zēng bái jì whitener / whitening agent
太白山 Tài bái Shān Mt Taibai in Shaanxi
哥白尼 Gē bái ní Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
鱼肚白 yú dù bái fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
漂白剂 piǎo bái jì bleach
瞿秋白 Qū Qiū bái Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
空白点 kòng bái diǎn gap / empty space
蛋白石 dàn bái shí opal
圆白菜 yuán bái cài round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
洋白菜 yáng bái cài cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
绵白糖 mián bái táng sugar powder
太白粉 tài bái fěn cornstarch / potato starch
麦克白 Mài kè bái Macbeth (name) / Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
大白话 dà bái huà colloquial speech
打白条 dǎ bái tiáo to write an IOU or promissory note
蛋白胨 dàn bái dòng peptone (biochemistry)
博白县 Bó bái xiàn Bobai county in Yulin 玉林[Yu4 lin2], Guangxi
苍白色 cāng bái sè pale / wan / sickly white
曹白鱼 cáo bái yú Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad
唱白脸 chàng bái liǎn to play the role of the villain (idiom)
长白县 Cháng bái xiàn Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
长白镇 Cháng bái zhèn Changbai township, capital of Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
吃白饭 chī bái fàn to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
吃白食 chī bái shí to eat without paying / to freeload
虫白蜡 chóng bái là white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
大白鹭 dà bái lù (bird species of China) great egret (Ardea alba)
蛋白光 dàn bái guāng opalescence
蛋白素 dàn bái sù albumin
电白县 Diàn bái xiàn Dianbai county in Maoming 茂名, Guangdong
定场白 dìng chǎng bái first soliloquy (introducing opera character)
黑白切 hēi bái qiē (Tw) heibaiqie, side dish of ingredients selected from a range on display, sliced up and served together on a plate (from Taiwanese 烏白切, Tai-lo pr. [oo-pe̍h-tshiat], where 烏白 / means "as one pleases")
灰白冰 huī bái bīng grey-white ice
灰白质 huī bái zhí grey
茭白笋 jiāo bái sǔn edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo
角蛋白 jiǎo dàn bái keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)
康白度 kāng bái dù comprador (loanword)
克尔白 Kè ěr bái Ka'aba, sacred building in Mecca
酪蛋白 lào dàn bái casein (milk protein)
莲花白 lián huā bái (dialect) cabbage
立可白 lì kě bái correction fluid (loanword from "Liquid Paper") (Tw)
米白色 mǐ bái sè off-white / creamy white
奶白菜 nǎi bái cài milk cabbage (aka "white bok choy" and various other names), a variety of bok choy
弄明白 nòng míng bai to figure out how to do something
漂白水 piǎo bái shuǐ bleach
青白江 Qīng bái jiāng Qingbaijiang district of Chengdu city 成都市[Cheng2 du1 shi4], Sichuan
瞿秋白 Qú Qiū bái Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
傻白甜 shǎ bái tián (Internet slang) sweet, naive young woman
太白县 Tài bái Xiàn Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bao3 ji1], Shaanxi
太白星 Tài bái xīng Venus (planet)
糖蛋白 táng dàn bái glycoprotein
涂白剂 tú bái jì a white paint applied to tree trunks to protect the trees from insect damage etc
银白杨 yín bái yáng silver birch / white poplar
俞天白 Yú Tiān bái Yu Tianbai (1937-), novelist
中白鹭 zhōng bái lù (bird species of China) medium egret (Ardea intermedia)
自白书 zì bái shū confession
伊丽莎白 Yī lì shā bái Elizabeth (person name)
胶原蛋白 jiāo yuán dàn bái collagen
不明不白 bù míng bù bái (idiom) obscure / dubious / shady
真相大白 zhēn xiàng dà bái the whole truth is revealed (idiom) / everything becomes clear
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