"White" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 fěn sè pink / white / erotic / beautiful woman / powdered (with make-up)
 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
 bái sè white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist
 bái bái in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
 yú dù bái white (paint from dried fish guts) / marble white color of the dawn sky
 bái qiǎo kè lì white
 sù raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever
怀 Huái tè White (name)
 hēi bái black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
 bái yún white cloud
 dàn bái egg white / protein / albumen
 xuě bái snow white
 bái fà white or gray hair / CL:根[gen1]
 jié bái spotlessly white / pure white
 bái jiǔ baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒[bai2 pu2 tao5 jiu3])
 luó bo radish (Raphanus sativus), esp. white radish 白蘿蔔|白萝卜[bai2 luo2 bo5] / CL:個|个[ge4],根[gen1]
 Bái gōng White House
 bái mǎ white horse
 Bái hǔ White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
 jié rán bù tóng entirely different / different as black and white
 duì bǐ dù contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast
 bái táng (refined) white sugar
 dān sè monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
 yín guāng silvery light / bright white light / shining white light
 fā bái to turn pale / to lose color / to go white
 fǎn zhuǎn reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
 dōng guā wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida) / white gourd / white hairy melon / Chinese squash
 bái rén white man or woman / Caucasian
 bái pí shū white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book
 chún bái pure white
 xiǎo qīng name of a person, Xiaoqing, from Madam White Snake
 rǔ bái sè milky white
 bái xì bāo white blood cell / leukocyte
 bái bù plain white cloth / calico
 yín bái silver white
 qīng huā blue and white (porcelain)
 shà bái deathly white
 bái huā huā shining white
 xǔ xiān name of a person, Xu Xian, from Madam White Snake
 bái lián white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教
 bái yǐ termite / white ant
 dàn qīng (coll.) egg white
 yín ěr white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
 Bái Shé Zhuàn Tale of the White Snake / Madame White Snake
 bái luó bo white radish / daikon / Raphanus sativus longipinnatus
 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
 dà bái shā great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
 bái gǔ jīng White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
 fàn bái to be suffused with white / faded / bleached / to blanch
 bái qí white flag
 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
 hàn bái yù white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
 ái ái white as snow / pure white
 yā lí Chinese white pear (Pyrus × / bretschneideri)
 bái liǎn white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
 sì xiàng four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3]
 pī shuāng white arsenic / arsenic trioxide As2O3
 rǔ bái milky white / cream color
 bái yè white night
线 bái xiàn white line (road markings)
 xiǎo bái shǔ white mouse / lab mouse / lab rat / (fig.) human guinea pig
 shuāng xuě frost and snow / (fig.) snowy white (hair) / adversity
 jīn zhēn gū enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes, Japanese えのき茸 / enokitake), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white / abbr. to 金菇
 bái shā táng white granulated sugar
 bái zhǐ hēi zì (written) in black and white
 bái ròu plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc)
 bái yáng shù white poplar (Populus bonatii)
 bái yáng shù white poplar (Populus bonatii)
 jī dàn qīng egg white
 bái cù white vinegar / plain vinegar
 Léi fēng Tǎ Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake)
 yǎn bái white of the eye
 qīng huā cí blue and white porcelain
 Tǔ zú Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
 bái máo nu:3 The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
 Bái lián jiào White Lotus society
 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 mǎ Sì the Baima or White Horse Temple in Luoyang, one of the earliest Buddhist temples in China
 qiū shuāng autumn frost / fig. white hair as sign of old age
 bái là white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
 bái xióng polar bear / white bear
 bái xuè qiú white blood cell / leukocyte
 Lái wēn sī jī Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern
 jīn shān sì Jinshan Temple, where Fahai lives (from Madam White Snake)
 Bái sè kǒng bù White Terror
齿 hào chǐ white teeth (symbol of youth and beauty)
 nǎi zhī milk from a woman's breast / milk (used in the names of dishes to indicate white sauce)
 bái zhǒng the white race
 bái chì white heat / incandescence
 yuán bái cài round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
 bái rǔ jiāo white glue
 bái mù ěr white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus
 hào shǒu white head of hair / fig. old person
 gǔ cí bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)
 gǎo sù white silk mourning dress
 bái yī zhàn shì warrior in white / medical worker
 bái rè white heat / incandescence
 bái hú jiāo white peppercorn
 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
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