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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
white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist
HSK 2
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  *练* | 练* | *练
to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk
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
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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
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
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  *霜* | 霜* | *霜
frost / white powder or cream spread over a surface / frosting / (skin) cream
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
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
entirely different / different as black and white
HSK 7-9
pink / white / erotic / beautiful woman / powdered (with make-up)
white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book
white jade / tofu (by analogy)
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
white heat / incandescence
white or gray hair / CL:
egg white / protein / albumen
white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis)
white cloud
monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武
white flag
Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd September
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
snow white
to be suffused with white; faded; bleached / to blanch
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  *颢* | 颢* | *颢
(literary) white and shining
spotlessly white / pure white
(of mist, snow, floodwater etc) a vast expanse of whiteness
white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教
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  *皎* | 皎* | *皎
bright / white
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
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  *皓* | 皓* | *皓
(bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)
dysentery characterized by white mucous stool / white diarrhea
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  *骆* | 骆* | *骆
camel / white horse with a black mane (archaic)
milky white / cream color
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  *琅* | 琅* | *琅
jade-like stone / clean and white / tinkling of pendants
platinum / silver / white gold / (Singapore) money gift at a funeral
Snow White
frost and snow / (fig.) snowy white (hair) / adversity
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  *雒* | 雒* | *雒
black horse with white mane / fearful
(literary) white as snow; pure white
Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri)
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
pure white
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  *纨* | 纨* | *纨
white / white silk
blue and white (porcelain)
the white part of a green onion or scallion
silver white
a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies!
deathly white
white vinegar / plain vinegar
(coll.) egg white
termite / white ant
silvery light / bright white light / shining white light
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
White (name)
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  *皑* | 皑* | *皑
(literary) white as snow
(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 rabbit / (fig.) (slang) breast
white heat / incandescence
(refined) white sugar
shining white
Fahai, name of the evil Buddhist monk in Tale of the White Snake 白蛇傳|白蛇传
White Lotus society
oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon
white phosphorus
white arsenic / arsenic trioxide As2O3
(bird species of China) white stork (Ciconia ciconia)
plain white cloth / calico
plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc)
bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
white night
lily-white hands
polar bear / white bear
White House
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
the white race
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  *缟* | 缟* | *缟
plain white silk
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida) / white gourd / white hairy melon / Chinese squash
colored / non-white / non-ferrous (metals)
radiance / silver white sheen
white of the eye
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong
to have bright eyes and white teeth
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
white teeth (symbol of youth and beauty)
clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤 / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
milk from a woman's breast / milk (used in the names of dishes to indicate white sauce)
(idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background
Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"
White area (area controlled by the KMT during the Second Revolutionary War 1927-1937)
creamy white; ivory color

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