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
- 眼白 white of the eye
- 白背兀鹫(白背兀鷲) white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
- 白话(白話) spoken language; vernacular
- 白顶玄鸥(白頂玄鷗) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
- 白腰朱顶雀(白腰朱頂雀) common redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
- 白拣(白揀) a cheap choice; to choose something that costs nothing
- 平白无故(平白無故) without good cause
- 粒白细胞(粒白細胞) white granulocyte (blood cell)
- 黑头白鹮(黑頭白䴉) black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus)
- 白带(白帶) leukorrhea
- 茭白菜 wild rice shoots
- 青白釉 Greenish-glazed white
- 白肉 plain boiled pork
- 莲花白(蓮花白) cabbage
- 德化白瓷 Dehua porcelain
- 一穷二白(一窮二白) impoverished; backward both economically and culturally
- 酪蛋白 casein (milk protein)
- 鲜白(鮮白) bright white
- 洁白(潔白) spotless; pure white
- 反白 reverse type (white on black); reversed-out (graphics); highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
- 牙白 ivory colored; very white
- 苍白(蒼白) pale; wan
- 白天 daytime
- 太白粉 cornstarch; potato starch
- 拉白布条(拉白布條) to hold up a white banner (i.e. to protest)
- 白璧 a white jade bi ; an innocent person
- 白腰鹊鸲(白腰鵲鴝) white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus)
- 白炽(白熾) white heat; incandescence
- 放着明白装糊涂(放著明白裝糊塗) to pretend not to know
- 白班 day shift
- 白水 plain water
- 大白鹭(大白鷺) great egret (Ardea alba)
- 白俄 Belarus
- 白腹凤鹛(白腹鳳鶥) white-bellied erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca)
- 伊莉萨白(伊莉薩白) Elizabeth (name)
- 白果 ginkgo
- 白狐 arctic fox
- 红白喜事(紅白喜事) weddings and funerals
- 白道 lunar orbit
- 白简(白簡) Wrigley's Spearmint
- 白头鹎(白頭鵯) light-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis)
- 韵白(韻白) yunbai
Also contained in
长白镇 、 白塔区 、 正镶白旗 、 白金汉宫 、 白石砬子 、 白夏瓦 、 兰坪白族普米族自治县 、 白纸写黑字 、 俞天白
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 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
- 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
- 驾白 (駕白) 駕白駱 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 3