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  *白* | 白* | *白
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
HSK 1
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  *練* | 練* | *練
to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk
HSK 2
white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist
HSK 2
baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒)
HSK 5
white-collar / white-collar worker
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *霜* | 霜* | *霜
frost / white powder or cream spread over a surface / frosting / (skin) cream
HSK 7-9
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  *粉* | 粉* | *粉
powder / cosmetic face powder / food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour / to turn to powder / (dialect) to whitewash / white / pink / (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝) / to be a fan of
HSK 7-9
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  *素* | 素* | *素
raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever
HSK 7-9
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
entirely different / different as black and white
HSK 7-9
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
deathly white
Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd September
platinum / silver / white gold / (Singapore) money gift at a funeral
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *驈* | 驈* | *驈
black horse with white legs
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *駱* | 駱* | *駱
camel / white horse with a black mane (archaic)
(to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
white man or woman; Caucasian
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皝* | 皝* | *皝
luminous / bright hoary, white
colored / non-white / non-ferrous (metals)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皓* | 皓* | *皓
(bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *驃* | 驃* | *驃
white horse
contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast
pink / white / erotic / beautiful woman / powdered (with make-up)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *珶* | 珶* | *珶
white jade worn on belt
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甝* | 甝* | *甝
white tiger
white blood cell / leukocyte
white or gray hair / CL:
monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
white blood cell / leukocyte
White (name)
spotlessly white / pure white
egg white / protein / albumen
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *顥* | 顥* | *顥
(literary) white and shining
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皎* | 皎* | *皎
bright / white
blue and white porcelain
white cloud
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus
Snow White
white vinegar / plain vinegar
White House
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *琅* | 琅* | *琅
jade-like stone / clean and white / tinkling of pendants
(Tw) radish, esp. white radish 白蘿蔔|白萝卜 / CL:
to turn pale / to lose color / to go white
lily-white hands
(refined) white sugar
milky white
oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon
enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white / abbr. to 金菇
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
white hand / empty-handed
pure white
daikon; white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
snow white
to turn white-hot / to intensify / to reach a climax
clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤 / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
white glove / (fig.) (slang) intermediary in negotiations; proxy who acts on behalf of an official in corrupt dealings (to keep the official's involvement secret)
white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
milky white / cream color
Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"
white jade / tofu (by analogy)
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
"angel in white" (laudatory term for a nurse)
plain white cloth / calico
(written) in black and white
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
the white race
white-edged morning glory
the white part of a green onion or scallion
fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
White Lotus society
brilliant white snow cover (esp. of distant peaks)
white granulated sugar
white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri)
Plain and Bordered White banner or Shuluun Hövööt Chagaan khoshuu in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia
white lie
to have bright eyes and white teeth
white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis)
white hole (cosmology)
white teeth (symbol of youth and beauty)
black and white TV
(literary) a one-foot-long piece of white silk, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message
white dwarf
lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
White area (area controlled by the KMT during the Second Revolutionary War 1927-1937)
(bird species of China) white stork (Ciconia ciconia)
white pottery (of Shang Dynastry 16-11th century BC)
the Baima or White Horse Temple in Luoyang, one of the earliest Buddhist temples in China
white silk mourning dress
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *紈* | 紈* | *紈
white / white silk
man-eating shark / same as 大白鯊|大白鲨, great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

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