白 bái

1. bái adjective white
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Color 颜色 , 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 部首
   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 语言
   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 光学
   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 道德
   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 戏剧
    Notes: (CCD 3 '白' 2; FE '白' 5)
13. bái noun a dialect
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Language 语言
    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 语言
    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 法律
    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 虚词
    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 口语
    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 名字 , 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 语言
    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

• 不明不白(不明不白) obscure / dubious / shady
• 银白色(銀白色) silver
• 白色 white ; reactionary / anti-communist
• 白领(白領) white collar worker
• 少白头(少白頭) to turn grey prematurely ; a person whose hair has turned grey prematurely
• 清白 pure ; having a job that does not involve money ; to understand ; to be complete / to finish ; rice wine and wine from sorghum
• 苍白(蒼白) pale / wan
• 白皮书(白皮書) white paper
• 白搭 no use / no good
• 白话(白話) spoken language / vernacular
• 白菜 Chinese cabbage
• 白酒 white spirit ; fine liquor ; white wine
• 白露 Bailu ; autumn dew
• 白天 daytime
• 白杨(白楊) poplar
• 白发(白髮) white hair / gray hair
• 白白 in vain / to no purpose / for nothing
• 蛋白质(蛋白質) protein
• 洁白(潔白) pure white
• 明白 to understand / to realize ; clear / obvious
• 黑白 black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
• 空白 blank space
• 坦白 frank
• 雪白 snow white
• 白帝 White Heavenly Emperor
• 白面儿(白麵兒) heroin
• 白眼珠儿(白眼珠兒) white of the eye
• 白鹄(白鵠) a white swan
• 白热(白熱) white hot
• 白铁(白鐵) galvanized iron
• 白昼(白晝) daytime
• 大白 to become clear / to become known ; plaster / chalk
• 白浪 white waves
• 白浪滔滔 roaring white waves
• 白浪掀天 white waves as tall as the sky
• 白银(白銀) silver ; Baiyin
• 白金 platinum
• 布白(佈白) to arrange the areas of ink and white space
• 白文 intagliated characters on a seal ; the text of an annotated book

Also contained in

博白 、 白佛 、 李白 、 白云观 、 红白玫瑰战争 、 白朴 、 哥白尼 、 白居易 、 白蛇传 、 白莲教 、 白陶 、 白玉

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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
• 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
• 坚白 (堅白) 堅白 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十 經上 Book 10 - Canon 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
• 白圭 (白圭) 白圭之玷 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧抑 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yi — 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