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 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
 bái sè white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist
 bái tiān daytime / during the day / day / CL:個|个[ge4]
 bái lǐng white-collar / white-collar worker
 bái yún white cloud
 bái chī idiocy / idiot
 bái bái in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
 bái fà white or gray hair / CL:根[gen1]
 bái jīn platinum / silver / (slang) handcuffs
 bái jiǔ baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒[bai2 pu2 tao5 jiu3])
 bái yín silver
 Bái gōng White House
 bái mǎ white horse
 bái xī (of complexion or skin) fair and clear
 Bái hǔ White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
 bái cài Chinese cabbage / pak choi / CL:棵[ke1], 個|个[ge4]
 bái yǎn to give a supercilious look / roll of the eyes
 bái táng (refined) white sugar
 bái fèi to waste (one's energy etc)
 bái shuǐ plain water
 bái gǔ bones of the dead
 bái rén white man or woman / Caucasian
 bái nèn (of skin etc) fair / delicate
 bái zhòu daytime
 bái rì daytime / sun / time
 bái tóu hoary head / old age
 Bái yáng Aries (star sign)
 bái bǎn whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
 bái dài leukorrhea
 bái bù plain white cloth / calico
 bái huà spoken language / vernacular
 bái jìng (of skin) fair and clear
 bái yáng poplar / CL:棵[ke1]
 bái hè (bird species of China) Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus)
 bái dào lunar orbit / legitimate / righteous / see also 黑道[hei1 dao4]
 bái chī to eat without paying / to eat for free
 bái lù (bird species of China) little egret (Egretta garzetta)
 bái mò froth / foam (coming from the mouth)
 bái miàn wheat flour / flour / heroin
 Bái zú Bai (ethnic group)
 bái lián white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教
 bái yǐ termite / white ant
 bái fěn face powder / chalk powder / heroin
 bái hú arctic fox
 bái guǒ ginkgo
 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
 bái zhú the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes (Atractylodes macrocephaia)
 bái tiáo IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
 bái zhǐ Dahurian angelica (Angelica dahurica) / root of Dahurian angelica (used in TCM)
 bái fàn plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
 bái qí white flag
 bái dā no use / no good
 bái huó to waste one's life / to fail to make the most of one's life
 bái liǎn white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
 bái cí blanc de chine (porcelain)
 bái mǐ (polished) rice
 bái yè white night
线 bái xiàn white line (road markings)
 bái zì wrongly written or mispronounced character
 bái sháo root of herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora), used in TCM
 bái ròu plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc)
 bái cù white vinegar / plain vinegar
 bái fó to ask Buddha
 bái jīng white whale / beluga / Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville 赫曼·麥爾維爾|赫曼·麦尔维尔[He4 man4 · / Mai4 er3 wei2 er3]
 bái miáo line drawing in traditional ink and brush style / simple and straightforward style of writing
 bái rèn naked sword
 bái wén the text of an annotated book / an unannotated edition of a book / intagliated characters (on a seal)
 bái là white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
 bái xióng polar bear / white bear
 bái tiě galvanized iron
 bái bān day shift
 bái shuāng hoar frost
 bái juàn blank exam paper
 bái hóu diphtheria
 bái shǔ sweet potato
 Bái é Belarus / abbr. for 白俄羅斯|白俄罗斯[Bai2 e2 luo2 si1]
 bái tóng copper-nickel alloy
 bái zhǒng the white race
 bái è chalk
 bái chì white heat / incandescence
 bái rè white heat / incandescence
 Bái jūn White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
 bái lì dysentery characterized by white mucous stool / white diarrhea
 bái fán alum
 bái zhuó gonorrhea (TCM term) / more commonly known as 淋病[lin4 bing4]
 bái dú colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
 bái guàn (bird species of China) white stork (Ciconia ciconia)
 bái lín white phosphorus
 bái qū White area (area controlled by the KMT during the Second Revolutionary War 1927-1937)
  Beli Orlovi / White Eagles
  White Helmets
 bái bēi stone tablet without inscription / blank stele
 bái chē ambulance (slang) (Cantonese)
 Bái chéng Baicheng prefecture-level city in Jilin province 吉林省 / in northeast China
 bái chī idiocy / idiot / variant of 白痴
 bái dòng white hole (cosmology)
 bái fěi white bandit (i.e. Nationalist soldier)
 bái fù white aconite
 bái gāng steel
 bái guǐ "white ghost", derogatory term for caucasians (Cantonese)
 Bái Hǎi White Sea
 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
 bái hú (white) swan
 bái jiǎn a cheap choice / to choose sth that costs nothing
 Bái jiǎn Wrigley's Spearmint (brand)
 bái là pewter / solder
 Bái lǎng Bainang county, Tibetan: Pa snam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
 bái liǎn Ampelopsis japonica (creeper with root used in TCM)
 bái líng sand fly
 bái máo white hair (of animals) / see also 白髮|白发[bai2 fa4]
 bái máo cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
 bái méi anthracite / hard coal / white coal / waterpower
 bái mù (slang) stupid / moron
 bái nú white-collar slave (office worker who is overworked and exploited)
 bái pī white arsenic / arsenic trioxide
 bái piào blank vote / abstention
 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
 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
 bái ráo to give sth extra free of charge / (coll.) in vain / to no avail
 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
 Bái shān Baishan prefecture-level city in Jilin province 吉林省 / in northeast China
 bái shì funeral / to explain (literary)
 bái sū common perilla
 bái tāng clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤[nai3 tang1] / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
 bái táo white pottery (of Shang Dynastry 16-11th century BC)
 bái tǐ lean type
 Bái tīng Whitehall
 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])
 bái tuō butter (loanword)
 Bái xià Baixia district of Nanjing City 南京市 / in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
 bái xiàn white amaranth (Amaranthus albus) / sprouts and tender leaves of Chinese spinach (Amaranthus spp.) used as food
 bái xián (bird species of China) silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera)
 bái xuě snow
 bái yì opacity of the cornea (in TCM) / cataract
 bái yú whitefish
 bái yù white jade / tofu (by analogy)
 Bái Zé Bai Ze or White Marsh, legendary creature of ancient China
 bái zhōu plain rice congee
 bái zhù to live (somewhere) for free
 bái zhuàng (car) accident where the driver is not held responsible
 bái zǐ white Go chess piece / bee pupa / albino
 bái zuǒ naive, self-righteous Western liberals (neologism c. 2015)
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 bái xuè bìng leukemia
 Bái yáng zuò Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
 bái diàn fēng vitiligo
 bái bān bìng vitiligo
 bái pí shū white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book
 bái kāi shuǐ plain boiled water
 bái rè huà to turn white-hot / to intensify / to reach a climax
 bái rì mèng daydream / reverie
 bái nèi zhàng cataract (ophthalmology)
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 míng bai clear / obvious / unequivocal / to understand / to realize
 kòng bái blank space
 hēi bái black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
 cāng bái pale / wan
 dàn bái egg white / protein / albumen
 měi bái to whiten (the skin or teeth)
 xuě bái snow white
 duì bái dialogue (in a movie or a play)
 jié bái spotlessly white / pure white
 biǎo bái to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
 tǎn bái honest / forthcoming / to confess
 gào bái to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
 Lǐ Bái Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
 qīng bái pure / innocent
 cǎn bái deathly pale
 fā bái to turn pale / to lose color / to go white
 dú bái stage monologue / soliloquy
 chún bái pure white
 zì bái confession / to make clear one's position or intentions / to brag
 huī bái colored / ash-colored
 piǎo bái to bleach / to whiten
 zhí bái frank / open / blunt
 yín bái silver white
 huā bái grizzled (hair)
 páng bái aside (theater) / voice-over / background narration
 shà bái deathly white
 píng bái for no reason / gratuitously
 qīng bái pale / pallor
 fàn bái to be suffused with white / faded / bleached / to blanch
 rǔ bái milky white / cream color
 bān bái grizzled / graying
 biàn bái to offer an explanation / to plead innocence / to try to defend oneself
 yǎn bái white of the eye
 qiǎng bái to rebuke / to reprimand
 jiāo bái Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
 pōu bái to explain oneself
 lòu bái to reveal one's valuables inadvertently / to betray one's silver (money) when traveling
 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)
 hào bái snow-white / spotless
 bàn bái fifty (years of age)
 bān bái variant of 斑白[ban1 bai2]
 bān bái variant of 斑白[ban1 bai2]
 Bó bái Bobai county in Yulin 玉林[Yu4 lin2], Guangxi
 Cháng bái Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
 dā bái to answer
 dā bái to answer
 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)
 dào bái spoken lines in opera
 Diàn bái Dianbai county in Maoming 茂名, Guangdong
 diàn bái indigo white
 fǎn bái reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
 guān bái to inform / to notify
 jiàn bái to propose / to suggest / to state a view
 jiǎo bái bright white
 jīng bái pure white / spotlessly white
 kǒu bái narrator / spoken parts in an opera
 lán bái GD
 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)
 niè bái opaque white
 qiǎn bái simple / easy to understand
 shuāng bái frosty
 Sòng bái Song Bai (936-1012), Northern Song literary man
 Tài bái Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bao3 ji1], Shaanxi / Venus
 xiǎn bai variant of 顯擺|显摆[xian3 bai5]
 xiǎo bái (slang) novice / greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool / idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy
 xǐ bái to make sth clean and white / (fig.) to whitewash / to launder money
 yá bái creamy white / ivory color
 yùn bái form of rhymed baihua 白話|白话[bai2 hua4] in Beijing opera
 zhuó bái to strip bark
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 bù míng bái does not understand / fails to realize (intuitively) what is going on
 dàn bái zhì protein
 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
 shuō bái le to speak frankly
 rǔ bái sè milky white
 xiǎo bái tù bunny rabbit
 fān bái yǎn to roll one's eyes
 dà bái cài bok choy / Chinese cabbage / Brassica pekinensis / CL:棵[ke1]
 kāi chǎng bái prologue of play / opening remarks / preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
 dà bái tiān broad daylight
 xiǎo bái liǎn attractive young man (usually derog.) / pretty boy / gigolo
 huī bái sè ash gray
 qiú dàn bái globulin
 xiǎo bái cài bok choy / Chinese cabbage / Brassica chinensis / CL:棵[ke1]
 dà bái shā great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
 dàn bái méi protease
 Qí Bái shí Qi Baishi (1864-1957), famous Chinese painter
 zhī dàn bái lipoprotein
 hàn bái yù white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
 xiǎo bái shǔ white mouse / lab mouse / lab rat / (fig.) human guinea pig
 zēng bái jì whitener / whitening agent
 Tài bái Shān Mt Taibai in Shaanxi
 Gē bái ní Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
 yú dù bái white (paint from dried fish guts) / marble white color of the dawn sky
 piǎo bái jì bleach
 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
 kòng bái diǎn gap / empty space
 dàn bái shí opal
 yuán bái cài round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
 yáng bái cài cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
 mián bái táng sugar powder
 tài bái fěn cornstarch / potato starch
 Mài kè bái Macbeth (name) / Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
 dà bái huà colloquial speech
 dǎ bái tiáo to write an IOU or promissory note
 dàn bái dòng peptone (biochemistry)
 Bó bái xiàn Bobai county in Yulin 玉林[Yu4 lin2], Guangxi
 cāng bái sè pale / wan / sickly white
 cáo bái yú Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad
 chàng bái liǎn to play the role of the villain (idiom)
 Cháng bái xiàn Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
 Cháng bái zhèn Changbai township, capital of Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
 chī bái fàn to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
 chī bái shí to eat without paying / to freeload
 chóng bái là white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
 dà bái lù (bird species of China) great egret (Ardea alba)
 dàn bái guāng opalescence
 dàn bái sù albumin
 Diàn bái xiàn Dianbai county in Maoming 茂名, Guangdong
 dìng chǎng bái first soliloquy (introducing opera character)
 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")
 huī bái bīng grey-white ice
 huī bái zhí grey
 jiāo bái sǔn edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo
 jiǎo dàn bái keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)
 kāng bái dù comprador (loanword)
 Kè ěr bái Ka'aba, sacred building in Mecca
 lào dàn bái casein (milk protein)
 lián huā bái (dialect) cabbage
 lì kě bái correction fluid (loanword from "Liquid Paper") (Tw)
 mǐ bái sè off-white / creamy white
 nòng míng bai to figure out how to do something
 piǎo bái shuǐ bleach
 Qīng bái jiāng Qingbaijiang district of Chengdu city 成都市[Cheng2 du1 shi4], Sichuan
 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
 shǎ bái tián (Internet slang) sweet, naive young woman
 Tài bái Xiàn Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bao3 ji1], Shaanxi
 Tài bái xīng Venus (planet)
 táng dàn bái glycoprotein
 tú bái jì a white paint applied to tree trunks to protect the trees from insect damage etc
 yín bái yáng silver birch / white poplar
 Yú Tiān bái Yu Tianbai (1937-), novelist
 zhōng bái lù (bird species of China) intermediate egret (Egretta intermedia)
 zì bái shū confession
 Yī lì shā bái Elizabeth (person name)
 jiāo yuán dàn bái collagen
 bù míng bù bái obscure / dubious / shady
 zhēn xiàng dà bái the whole truth is revealed (idiom) / everything becomes clear
 xuè hóng dàn bái hemoglobin
 Yī lì shā bái Elizabeth / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
 bù bái zhī yuān unrighted wrong / unredressed injustice
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