bái bai

white; pure, unblemished; bright

HSK 2 #286

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

白 stroke order diagram
白 stroke order animation

WORDS

虎 bái hǔ White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky); (slang) hairless female genitalia
蜡 bái là white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
蜡树 bái là shù Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM
饭 bái fàn plain cooked rice; rice with nothing to go with it
石 dàn bái shí opal
阳春雪 yáng chūn bái xuě melodies of the elite in the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]; highbrow art and literature
话 dà bái huà colloquial speech
刃战 bái rèn zhàn hand-to-hand fighting
城 bái chéng Baicheng prefecture-level city in Jilin province 吉林省 in northeast China
子 bái zǐ white Go chess piece; bee pupa; albino
带 bái dài leukorrhea
茫茫 bái máng máng (of mist, snow, floodwater etc) a vast expanse of whiteness
莲教 bái lián jiào White Lotus society
金汉郡 bái jīn hàn jùn Buckinghamshire (English county)
头翁 bái tóu wēng root of Chinese pulsatilla; Chinese bulbul
骨精 bái gǔ jīng White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]); (fig.) sly and cunning person
发苍苍 bái fà cāng cāng old and gray-haired
yín bái silver white
cháng bái Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
鱼肚 yú dù bái white (paint from dried fish guts); marble white color of the dawn sky
菜 dà bái cài bok choy; Chinese cabbage; Brassica pekinensis; CL:棵[ke1]
山 tài bái shān Mt Taibai in Shaanxi
菜 xiǎo bái cài bok choy; Chinese cabbage; Brassica chinensis; CL:棵[ke1]
qiǎng bái to rebuke; to reprimand
菜 yáng bái cài cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)