白 bái

1. bái adjective white
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Color , Concept: Color 颜色
   Notes: White in color, in the sense of 白色 (CCD 1 '白' 1; FE '白' 1; GHDC '白' 1). For example, 白云 'white clouds.' (XHW 2016-02-04)
2. bái noun Kangxi radical 106
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
3. bái adjective plain
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD 1 '白' 1; FE '白' 2). For example, 白文 (plain text)
4. bái verb to make clear / to state / to explain / to say / to address
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Language
   Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 说明 (CCD 3 '白' 1; FE '白' 6)
5. bái adjective pure / clean / stainless
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 纯洁 (FE '白' 1; GHDC '白' 4)
6. bái adjective bright
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Optics
   Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 明亮 (CCD 1 '白' 2; FE '白' 1; GHDC '白' 5).
7. bái adjective a wrongly written character
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD 2 '白'; GHDC '白' 9)
8. bái adjective clear
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 清楚 (GHDC '白' 6)
9. bái adjective true / sincere / genuine
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Morality
   Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 真诚.
10. bái adjective reactionary
    Domain: Politics 政治
    Notes: For example, 白军 (CCD 1 '白' 7)
11. bái noun a wine cup
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For drinking illegal alcohol in historic times (GHDC '白' 10)
12. bái noun a spoken part in an opera
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Drama
    Notes: (CCD 3 '白' 2; FE '白' 5)
13. bái noun a dialect
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Language
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 方言 (CCD 3 '白' 3)
14. bái verb to understand
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 清楚 or 明白.
15. bái verb to report
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Language
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 报告.
16. bái verb to accuse / to charge / to sue / to indict
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Law
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 控告 (GHDC '白' 7)
17. bái adverb in vain / to no purpose / for nothing
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 平白 or 白白 (CCD 1 '白' 5; FE '白' 3)
18. bái adverb merely / simply / only
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 单单 or 只是.
19. bái adjective empty / blank
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 一无所有 (CCD 1 '白' 4; FE '白' 2; GHDC '白' 8)
20. bái adjective free
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 免费 (CCD 1 '白' 6; FE '白' 4)
21. bái bound form to stare coldly / a scornful look
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 白眼 (CCD 1 '白' 9)
22. bái noun relating to funerals
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 红白事 'weddings and funerals' (CCD 1 '白' 8; GHDC '白' 2)
23. bái proper noun Bai
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (CCD 1 '白' 10; FE '白' 7)
24. bái noun vernacular / spoken language
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Language
    Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 白话 (CCD 3 '白' 4)
25. bái noun a symbol for silver
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHDC '白' 11)

Contained in

• 不分皂白 not distinguishing black or white / not to distinguish between right and wrong
• 白嫩 (of skin etc) fair / delicate
• 青白 pale / pallor
• 大白熊犬 Great Pyrenees (dog breed)
• 露白 to reveal one's valuables inadvertently / to betray one's silver (money) when traveling
• 大白鲨(大白鯊) great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
• 黑白 black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
• 白圭之玷 a flaw in white jade
• 白话文(白話文) writings in the vernacular
• 白颈鸦(白頸鴉) collared crow (Corvus torquatus)
• 白翅蓝鹊(白翅藍鵲) white-winged magpie (Urocissa whiteheadi)
• 白木耳 white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus
• 白暨豚(白鱀豚) baiji / Yangtze River dolphin
• 白像 white elephant
• 白皙 fair / white / blonde
• 抢白(搶白) to rebuke / to reprimand
• 白点噪鹛(白點噪鶥) white-speckled laughing thrush (Garrulax bieti)
• 小白额雁(小白額雁) lesser white-fronted goose (Anser erythropus)
• 真相大白 the whole truth is revealed / everything becomes clear
• 白垩世(白堊世) Cretaceous
• 白水晶 rock crystal (mineral)
• 白喉毒素 diphtheria toxin
• 白目 stupid / moron
• 白条(白條) IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
• 酪蛋白 casein (milk protein)
• 半白 fifty (years of age)
• 鲜白(鮮白) bright white
• 白皮书(白皮書) white paper
• 白头鹤(白頭鶴) hooded crane (Grus monacha)
• 白班 day shift
• 白色战剂(白色戰劑) Agent White
• 白苏(白蘇) common perilla
• 白衣苍狗(白衣蒼狗) (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog / the impermanence of all things
• 白血病 leukemia
• 白刃 naked sword
• 白额圆尾鹱(白額圓尾鸌) bonin petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca)
• 东方白鹳(東方白鸛) oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana)
• 白钢(白鋼) steel
• 白骨 bones of the dead
• 白车(白車) ambulance
• 白顶溪鸲(白頂溪鴝) white-capped redstart (Chaimarrornis leucocephalus)
• 恶叉白赖(惡叉白賴) evil behavior / brazen villainy
• 黑白林鵖 Jerdon's bush chat (Saxicola jerdoni)
• 不白之冤 unrighted wrong / unredressed injustice
• 白皮杉醇 piceatannol C14H12O4

Also contained in

十白业道 、 白日焰火 、 长白镇 、 瞿秋白选集 、 青白江 、 白河镇

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• 卷六十 志第十三 天文十三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Astronomy 13 History of Song 宋史 — count: 61
• 卷六十四 志第十七 五行二下 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Five Elements 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 61
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 61
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Collocations

• 白狄 (白狄) 郤缺獲白狄子 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 17
• 白公 (白公) 為白公 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 16
• 白华 (白華) 白華 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧白華 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Bai Hua — count: 8
• 白羽 (白羽) 許遷于白羽 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 7
• 白驹 (白駒) 白駒 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鴻鴈之什‧白駒 Minor odes of the kingdom - Hong Yan Zhi Shen - He Ming — count: 7
• 坚白 (堅白) 堅白 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十 經上 Book 10 - Canon I — count: 6
• 白黑 (白黑) 則必以此人不知白黑之辯矣 — Mozi 墨子, 卷五 非攻上 Book 5 - Condemnation of Offensive War I — count: 6
• 白牡 (白牡) 白牡騂剛 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧閟宮 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Bi Gong — count: 5
• 皎皎白 (皎皎白) 皎皎白駒 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鴻鴈之什‧白駒 Minor odes of the kingdom - Hong Yan Zhi Shen - He Ming — count: 4
• 用白 (用白) 周公用白牡 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 4