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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
daytime / during the day / day / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist
HSK 2
Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL: , 個|个
HSK 3
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
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *白* | 白* | *白
surname Bai
IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book
to give sb a dirty look; to cast a supercilious glance / a disdainful look
Baiyü county (Tibetan: dpal yul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
white jade / tofu (by analogy)
Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)
wheat flour / flour / heroin
white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
white heat / incandescence
white or gray hair / CL:
leukemia
Baiyun District of Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市, Guizhou / Baiyun District of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市, Guangdong
white cloud
daytime / sun / time
Aries (star sign)
Bainang county, Tibetan: Pa snam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
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
hoary head / old age
poplar / CL:
the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes (Atractylodes macrocephaia)
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
Baihe County in Ankang 安康, Shaanxi / Paiho town in Tainan County 台南縣|台南县, Taiwan
(of mist, snow, floodwater etc) a vast expanse of whiteness
white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教
Baishui county in Weinan 渭南, Shaanxi
plain water
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
arctic fox
ginkgo
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
dysentery characterized by white mucous stool / white diarrhea
daytime
root of herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora), used in TCM
Buckingham Palace
Baisha (common place name) / Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan / Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
Bai (ethnic group)
(of complexion or skin) fair and clear
silver
(of skin etc) fair / delicate
(of skin) fair and clear
spoken language / vernacular
snow
face powder / chalk powder / heroin
wrongly written or mispronounced character
platinum / silver / white gold / (Singapore) money gift at a funeral
Snow White
Baidi town in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction
leukorrhea
to eat without paying / to eat for free
Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville 赫曼·麥爾維爾|赫曼·麦尔维尔
beluga whale
vitiligo
bones of the dead
(polished) rice
day shift
white man or woman; Caucasian
a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies!
Dahurian angelica (Angelica dahurica) / root of Dahurian angelica (used in TCM)
white vinegar / plain vinegar
funeral / to explain (literary)
termite / white ant
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
brandy (loanword)
no use / no good
bald eagle
chalk
(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 rabbit / (fig.) (slang) breast
white heat / incandescence
(bird species of China) little egret (Egretta garzetta)
albinism
(refined) white sugar
dolomite
shining white
Belarus
White Lotus society
to waste (one's energy etc)
old and gray-haired
froth / foam (coming from the mouth)
white phosphorus
(bird species of China) Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus)
(bird species of China) white stork (Ciconia ciconia)
plain white cloth / calico
plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc)
common perilla
white night
a Prince Charming; the man of one's dreams

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