bái bai

white; pure, unblemished; bright

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DEFINITIONS

白 bái
  • surname Bai
  • white
  • snowy
  • pure
  • bright
  • empty
  • blank
  • plain
  • clear
  • to make clear
  • in vain
  • gratuitous
  • free of charge
  • reactionary
  • anti-communist
  • funeral
  • to stare coldly
  • to write wrong character
  • to state
  • to explain
  • vernacular
  • spoken lines in opera

STROKES

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WORDS

垩纪 bái è jì Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
biàn bái to offer an explanation; to plead innocence; to try to defend oneself
杨树 bái yáng shù white poplar (Populus bonatii)
cǎn bái deathly pale
俄罗斯 bái é luó sī Belarus
沙 bái shā Baisha (common place name); Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan; Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县[Peng2 hu2 xian4] (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
面 bái miàn wheat flour; flour; heroin
不明不 bù míng bù bái obscure; dubious; shady
垩 bái è chalk
花花 bái huā huā shining white
银 bái yín Baiyin prefecture-level city in Gansu; silver
令海峡 bái lìng hǎi xiá the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
肉 bái ròu plain boiled pork
dào bái spoken lines in opera
颠倒黑 diān dǎo hēi bái lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately; to misrepresent the facts; to invert right and wrong
一穷二 yī qióng èr bái impoverished; backward both economically and culturally
之冤 bù bái zhī yuān unrighted wrong; unredressed injustice
朗 bái lǎng Bainang county, Tibetan: Pa snam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
衣天使 bái yī tiān shǐ "angel in white" (laudatory term for a nurse)
露 bái lù Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd September
伊莉莎 yī lì shā bái Elizabeth; also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
嫩 bái nèn (of skin etc) fair; delicate
布 bái bù plain white cloth; calico
熊 bái xióng polar bear; white bear
皮书 bái pí shū white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation); white book