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
   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
   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
    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
    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
    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
    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

• 克尔白(克爾白) Ka'aba, sacred building in Mecca
• 白尾鹲(白尾鸏) white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)
• 白眶鸦雀(白眶鴉雀) spectacled parrotbill (Sinosuthora conspicillata)
• 白腹鹭(白腹鷺) white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis)
• 白雪 snow
• 白帝 White Heavenly Emperor
• 白花 a white flower ; to waste
• 漂白 to bleach; to whiten
• 黑白林鵖 Jerdon's bush chat (Saxicola jerdoni)
• 白喉姬鹟(白喉姬鶲) white-gorgeted flycatcher (Anthipes monileger)
• 白富美 Ms Perfect (i.e. fair-skinned, rich and beautiful)
• 白翅交嘴雀 white-winged crossbill (Loxia leucoptera)
• 白喉短翅鸫(白喉短翅鶇) lesser shortwing (Brachypteryx leucophris)
• 斫白 to strip bark
• 白鼻子 cunning or sly person
• 白头海雕(白頭海鵰) bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
• 白麻子 cannabis seed
• 俨如白昼(儼如白晝) as bright as daylight
• 白搭 no use; no good
• 白旗 white flag
• 白虎 white tiger ; White Tiger
• 白手起家 to build up from nothing; to start from scratch
• 白冠燕尾 white-crowned forktail (Enicurus leschenaulti)
• 乳白天空 whiteout
• 沙白喉林莺(沙白喉林鶯) desert whitethroat (Sylvia minula)
• 白腹鸫(白腹鶇) pale thrush (Turdus pallidus)
• 白眉林鸲(白眉林鴝) white-browed bush robin (Tarsiger indicus)
• 白腹鹞(白腹鷂) eastern marsh harrier (Circus spilonotus)
• 白俄 Belarus
• 白额圆尾鹱(白額圓尾鸌) bonin petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca)
• 白背兀鹫(白背兀鷲) white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
• 白纸黑字(白紙黑字) (written) in black and white
• 大白 to become clear; to become known ; plaster; chalk
• 不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫(不管白貓黑貓，捉住老鼠就是好貓) it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black
• 蛋白 protein ; egg white
• 布白(佈白) to arrange the areas of ink and white space
• 白发苍苍(白髮蒼蒼) old and gray-haired
• 白云(白雲) white cloud
• 纤维蛋白(纖維蛋白) fibrous protein
• 白眼河燕 white-eyed river martin (Pseudochelidon sirintarae)
• 月白风清(月白風清) white moon and a slight breeze
• 白话(白話) spoken language; vernacular
• 白鹿 white deer
• 白夜 white night

Also contained in

白下 、 白蛇传 、 白努利 、 白金汉郡 、 白城 、 白莲教 、 白骨精

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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
• 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

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
• 白石 (白石) 白石鑿鑿 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧揚之水 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Yang Zhi Shui — count: 3