白 bái
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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) -
bái
noun
Kangxi radical 106
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
bái
adjective
plain
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CCD 1 '白' 1; FE '白' 2). For example, 白文 (plain text) -
bái
verb
to make clear; to state; to explain; to say; to address
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 说明 (CCD 3 '白' 1; FE '白' 6) -
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) -
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). -
bái
adjective
a wrongly written character
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD 2 '白'; GHDC '白' 9) -
bái
adjective
clear
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 清楚 (GHDC '白' 6) -
bái
adjective
true; sincere; genuine
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 真诚. -
bái
adjective
reactionary
Domain: Politics 政治
Notes: For example, 白军 (CCD 1 '白' 7) -
bái
noun
a wine cup
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For drinking illegal alcohol in historic times (GHDC '白' 10) -
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) -
bái
noun
a dialect
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 方言 (CCD 3 '白' 3) -
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. -
bái
verb
to report
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 报告. -
bái
verb
to accuse; to charge; to sue; to indict
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 控告 (GHDC '白' 7) -
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) -
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. -
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) -
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) -
bái
bound form
to stare coldly; a scornful look
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 白眼 (CCD 1 '白' 9) -
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) -
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) -
bái
noun
vernacular; spoken language
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 白 has a similar meaning to 白话 (CCD 3 '白' 4) -
bái
noun
a symbol for silver
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (GHDC '白' 11)
Contained in
- 白发人送黑发人(白髮人送黑髮人) to see one's child die before oneself
- 白细胞(白細胞) white blood cell; leukocyte
- 铅白(鉛白) white lead
- 白腹姬鹟(白腹姬鶲) blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)
- 白脸䴓(白臉鳾) Przevalski's nuthatch (Sitta przewalskii)
- 胃蛋白酶 pepsin
- 澈白 pure white
- 白苋紫茄(白莧紫茄) white amaranth, purple eggplant; common foodstuff, unpretentious lifestyle
- 东方白鹳(東方白鸛) oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana)
- 白银书(白銀書) valuable book decorated with silver, gold and jewels etc, commonly regarded as a disguised form of bribe
- 白读(白讀) colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
- 白砒 white arsenic; arsenic trioxide
- 白花花 shining white
- 翻白眼 to roll one's eyes
- 弄明白 to figure out how to do something
- 大白话(大白話) colloquial speech
- 混淆黑白 to confuse black and white; to say that black is white; not to distinguish right from wrong
- 白腹军舰鸟(白腹軍艦鳥) Christmas frigatebird (Fregata andrewsi)
- 乳白色 milky white
- 白海 White Sea
- 襟怀坦白(襟懷坦白) open and candid; not hiding anything; ingenuous; openhearted; unselfish; magnanimous
- 白腹鸫(白腹鶇) pale thrush (Turdus pallidus)
- 小白脸(小白臉) attractive young man (usually derog.); pretty boy; gigolo
- 辩白(辯白) to offer an explanation; to plead innocence; to try to defend oneself
- 苍白无力(蒼白無力) pale and feeble; powerless
- 不分皂白 not distinguishing black or white; not to distinguish between right and wrong
- 银白杨(銀白楊) silver birch; white poplar
- 白顶溪鸲(白頂溪鴝) white-capped redstart (Chaimarrornis leucocephalus)
- 白玉 white jade
- 白鲸(白鯨) white whale; beluga
- 小白兔 bunny rabbit
- 大白菜 bok choy; Chinese cabbage; Brassica pekinensis
- 雪白 snow white
- 白冠燕尾 white-crowned forktail (Enicurus leschenaulti)
- 自白 confession; to make clear one's position or intentions; to brag
- 白颈鸦(白頸鴉) collared crow (Corvus torquatus)
- 白蛋白 albumin
- 白钢(白鋼) steel
- 绵白糖(綿白糖) powdered sugar
- 白皮杉醇 piceatannol C14H12O4
- 白尾蓝地鸲(白尾藍地鴝) white-tailed robin (Myiomela leucura)
- 大白天 broad daylight
- 白车(白車) ambulance
- 白字 wrongly written or mispronounced character
- 白枕鹤(白枕鶴) white-naped crane (Grus vipio)
- 白腹隼雕(白腹隼鵰) Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata)
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- 卷112下 靈徵志八下 Volume 112b Treatise 8: The Spiritual World 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 328
- 卷二十九 志第十九 符瑞下 Volume 29 Treatises 19: Auspicious Signs 3 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 198
- 卷六十六 志第十九 五行四 Volume 66 Treatises 19: Five Elements 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 77
- 卷二十八 志第十八 符瑞中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Auspicious Signs 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 65
- 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 64
- 卷12 志第7 禮儀七 Volume 12 Treatises 7: Rites 7 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 63
- 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
- 卷二十四 志第十四 車服 Volume 24 Treatises 15: Carraiges and Attire New Book of Tang 新唐書 — 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
- 卷六十 志第十三 天文十三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Astronomy 13 History of Song 宋史 — count: 61
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: 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 白茎 (白莖) 白莖白秀 — Guanzi 管子, 地員第五十八 Chapter 58: Land Officials — count: 3