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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
clear; obvious; unequivocal / sensible; reasonable / to understand; to realize
HSK 1
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
blank space
HSK 7-9
honest / forthcoming / to confess
HSK 7-9
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
prologue of play / opening remarks / preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
HSK 7-9
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
globulin
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *白* | 白* | *白
surname Bai
deathly white
(slang) novice; greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool; idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸, pretty boy
to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
pale / wan
ash-colored
spotlessly white / pure white
egg white / protein / albumen
pure / innocent
to turn pale / to lose color / to go white
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
to fill a gap (e.g. a gap in knowledge or blank space in a print layout) / to make some additional remarks / filler (in a newspaper or magazine)
pure white
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
snow white
Elizabeth (person name)
aside (theater) / voice-over / background narration
grizzled (hair)
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
milky white / cream color
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
stage monologue / soliloquy
to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白)
the white part of a green onion or scallion
Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
the rights and wrongs of a matter (idiom)
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
hemoglobin
to rebuke; to reprimand
casein (milk protein)
to offer an explanation / to plead innocence / to try to defend oneself
albumin
fibrous protein
actin
white of the eye
Macbeth (name) / Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
silver white
the whole truth is revealed (idiom); everything becomes clear
form of rhymed baihua 白話|白话 in Beijing opera
to bleach / to whiten
grizzled / graying
to propose / to suggest / to state a view
to explain oneself
creamy white; ivory color
for no reason / gratuitously
to whiten (the skin or teeth)
narrator / spoken parts in an opera
Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡, Shaanxi / Venus
confession / to make clear one's position or intentions / to brag
open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous / openhearted / unselfish / magnanimous / broad-minded
(idiom) obscure; dubious; shady
to reveal one's valuables inadvertently / to betray one's silver (money) when traveling
to inform / to notify
snow-white / spotless
to confuse black and white / to say that black is white / fig. not to distinguish right from wrong
collagen
spoken lines in opera
opaque white
variant of 斑白
perfectly clean / blameless / unimpeachable (idiom)
Bobai county in Yulin 玉林, Guangxi
Manchurian wild rice , aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
first soliloquy (introducing opera character)
pure white / spotlessly white
variant of 斑白
keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)
Qingbaijiang district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
pale / pallor
Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
to answer
to be suffused with white; faded; bleached / to blanch
fifty (years of age)
lipoprotein
to make sth clean and white / (fig.) to whitewash / to launder money
correction fluid (loanword from "Liquid Paper") (Tw)
to leave a message / to leave some empty space in a work of art / to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
bright white
to speak frankly / frank; open; blunt
glycoprotein
Elizabeth / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
Ka'aba, sacred building in Mecca
not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
to strip bark
myosin (biochemistry)
indigo white
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
ricin (biochemistry)
microalbumin

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