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
- 白洞 white hole
- 小白额雁(小白額雁) lesser white-fronted goose (Anser erythropus)
- 高铁血红蛋白(高鐵血紅蛋白) hemoglobin
- 白车(白車) ambulance
- 白羊座 Aries
- 酪蛋白 casein (milk protein)
- 白喉红尾鸲(白喉紅尾鴝) white-throated redstart (Phoenicurus schisticeps)
- 白喉斑秧鸡(白喉斑秧雞) slaty-legged crake (Rallina eurizonoides)
- 露白 to reveal one's valuables inadvertently; to betray one's silver (money) when traveling
- 白色战剂(白色戰劑) Agent White
- 白粉病 powdery mildew
- 一清二白 perfectly clean; blameless; unimpeachable
- 缴白卷(繳白卷) to submit an incomplete or empty paper
- 空口说白话(空口說白話) to make empty promises
- 建白 to propose; to suggest; to state a view ; to establish
- 恶叉白赖(惡叉白賴) evil behavior; brazen villainy
- 白腹锦鸡(白腹錦雞) Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae)
- 白花蛇舌草 Hedyotis diffusa
- 漂白 to bleach; to whiten
- 大白熊犬 Great Pyrenees (dog breed)
- 白喉针尾雨燕(白喉針尾雨燕) white-throated needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus)
- 白眉山鹧鸪(白眉山鷓鴣) white-necklaced partridge (Arborophila gingica)
- 大白天 broad daylight
- 白色情人节(白色情人節) White Day
- 坦白 frank
- 惨白(慘白) deathly pale
- 白话(白話) spoken language; vernacular
- 白玄鸥(白玄鷗) white tern (Gygis alba)
- 白色体(白色體) leucoplast
- 白鼻子 cunning or sly person
- 洋白菜 western-style cabbage
- 银白(銀白) silver white
- 乳白色 milky white
- 白扯淡 to talk rubbish
- 白眼珠儿(白眼珠兒) white of the eye
- 剖白 to explain oneself
- 白色恐怖 White Terror
- 白头(白頭) grey hair ; unsigned
- 白榴石 leucite
- 白领八哥(白領八哥) collared myna (Acridotheres albocinctus)
- 纤毛动力蛋白(纖毛動力蛋白) ciliary dynein protein
- 澈白 pure white
- 白发被两鬢(白髮被兩鬢) white hair covers my temples
- 白眉鸭(白眉鴨) garganey (Anas querquedula)
- 小白脸儿(小白臉兒) pretty boy
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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
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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
- 黄白 (黃白) 黃白次之 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 冬官考工記 第六 6. Office of Winter and Inspection Records — count: 3