"Blank" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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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
 dāi foolish / stupid / expressionless / blank / to stay
 lèng to look distracted / to stare blankly / distracted / blank / (coll.) unexpectedly / rash / rashly
 kòng gé blank / blank space on a form / space / / (indicating missing or illegible character)
 wú biǎo qíng expressionless / wooden (expression) / blank (face)
 lèng variant of 愣[leng4] / to look distracted / to stare blankly / distracted / blank
 pī blank (e.g. for a coin) / unburnt earthenware / semifinished product / Taiwan pr. [pei1]
 pī jiàn blank (for a coin etc) / breed or strain
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 kòng bái blank space
 tián chōng to fill up / to stuff / to fill in a blank space
 tián bǔ to fill a gap / to fill in a blank (on a form) / to overcome a deficiency
 liú kōng leave blank spaces in writing
 liú kòng to leave blank space in a document / to leave some time free
 tián kòng to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper)
 bái bǎn whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
 bái juàn blank exam paper
 kāi tiān chuāng to leave a blank to mark censored area
 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)
 wú zì bēi stone tablet without inscription / blank stele
 kōng bāo dàn blank cartridge
 fàng kōng pào (lit.) to fire blank shots / (fig.) to be all talk and no action / to shoot one's mouth off / to make empty promises
仿 fǎng zhǐ copying paper (with printed model characters and blank squares for writing practice)
 bǎn liǎn to put on a straight, stern or blank face / to put on a poker face
 fā zhí to stare / to look blank / to be fixed (of eyes)
 bái bēi stone tablet without inscription / blank stele
 bái piào blank vote / abstention
 yìng bì pī coin blank
 kòng bái zhī piào blank check
 chēng mù yǐ duì to return only a blank stare / to stare back
 diàn dàng to fill a blank space / to fill a slot (in a newspaper column, a TV program etc)
 tián gé běn exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)
 qí tóu shì treating everyone the same, regardless of individual differences / one-size-fits-all approach / (typesetting) block paragraphs (no indenting, and blank space between each paragraph)
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