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白
Mandarin: bai2
Definitions
  1. 1 white
  2. 2 snowy
  3. 3 pure
  4. 4 bright
  5. 5 empty
  6. 6 blank
  7. 7 plain
  8. 8 clear
  9. 9 to make clear
  10. 10 in vain
  11. 11 gratuitous
  12. 12 free of charge
  13. 13 reactionary
  14. 14 anti-communist
  15. 15 funeral
  16. 16 to stare coldly
  17. 17 to write wrong character
  18. 18 to state
  19. 19 to explain
  20. 20 vernacular
  21. 21 spoken lines in opera
  22. 22 unblemished
  23. 23 a surname
  24. 24 the spoken dialogue in a stage show
  25. 25 to have a strong drink to celebrate
  26. 26 to clear up
  27. 27 to confess to
  28. 28 to turn white
  29. 29 for no reason
  30. 30 simply
  31. 31 just
  32. 32 easy to understand
  33. 33 # adapted from cc-cedict
Other Readings
白
Words containing 白
白紙扇
白撞
白費心機
waste of effort or hardship (idiom)
白手起家
to start from scratch; to build from nothing
白瓜子
白話文
Vernacular Chinese -- written Chinese based on the grammar of the Mandarin diale
空頭白契
White Deeds, a contract that has not been stamped with the official stamp
白堊質
cement
表白
to explain oneself; to express; to reveal one's thoughts or feelings; declaratio
酸辣白菜
hot and sour bok choy
白鶴
a white crane
白領
說白
lines | plainly | speech, spoken parts in an opera; to put it bluntly
空口說白話
all talk no action; pay lip service to [syn.][粵]空口講白話
白變種
albino
白蘿蔔
daikon radish/turnip
白田邨
Pak Tin Estate, place in Hong Kong
白鼻哥
(noun) candidates who have failed in an exam; an idle loser who does nothing but
一片空白
an all empty or totally blank space
白痴仔
(noun) idiot; fool
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