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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
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
Belarus
(polished) rice
galvanized iron
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *白* | 白* | *白
surname Bai
(of skin etc) fair / delicate
Baiyun District of Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市, Guizhou / Baiyun District of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市, Guangdong
hoar frost
(of skin) fair and clear
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
wrongly written or mispronounced character
cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
(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
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
spoken language / vernacular
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
(of complexion or skin) fair and clear
whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book
cataract (ophthalmology)
funeral / to explain (literary)
long-nosed pit viper (agkistrodon acutus)
the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM
Belarus / abbr. for 白俄羅斯|白俄罗斯
to give sb a dirty look; to cast a supercilious glance / a disdainful look
vitiligo
white blood cell / leukocyte
white or gray hair / CL:
bones of the dead
white blood cell / leukocyte
the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes (Atractylodes macrocephaia)
face powder / chalk powder / heroin
snow
albinism
Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan
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
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus
hoary head / old age
Baishan, prefecture-level city in Jilin Province 吉林省
Snow White
white vinegar / plain vinegar
White House
silver
(refined) white sugar
daytime
blanc de chine (porcelain)
daikon; white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
daytime / sun / time
to turn white-hot / to intensify / to reach a climax
thankless wretch; an ingrate
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)
daydream / reverie
Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"
to waste (one's energy etc)
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)
"angel in white" (laudatory term for a nurse)
Baiyin district of Baiyin city 白銀市|白银市, Gansu
wheat flour / flour / heroin
plain white cloth / calico
(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
leukorrhea
brandy (loanword)
Buckingham Palace
(written) in black and white
chalk
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
the white race
IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
a Prince Charming; the man of one's dreams
Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
idiocy / idiot
Baicheng, prefecture-level city in Jilin Province 吉林省
root of Chinese pulsatilla / Chinese bulbul
White Lotus society
brilliant white snow cover (esp. of distant peaks)
old and gray-haired
white granulated sugar
white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
incandescent light
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
white hole (cosmology)
to freeload
largehead hairtail / beltfish / Trichiurus lepturus
white dwarf

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