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HSK
white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist
HSK 2
white tea
(photography) white balance
white noise
white lab rat
baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒)
HSK 5
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  *素* | 素* | *素
raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever
HSK 7-9
flat white
flat white
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
white lab coat (worn by medical staff); (metonym) clinician; medical professional
Taiwan white pine (Pinus morrisonicola)
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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-collar / white-collar worker
HSK 6
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)
entirely different / different as black and white
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) white-throated redstart (Phoenicurus schisticeps)
white hair (of animals) / see also 白髮|白发
white chocolate
white chocolate (abbr. for 白巧克力)
fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
(bird species of China) white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)
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  *練* | 練* | *練
to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk
HSK 2
Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)
brilliant white snow cover (esp. of distant peaks)
White Day
monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
egg white
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
milky white
white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
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  *霜* | 霜* | *霜
frost / white powder or cream spread over a surface / frosting / (skin) cream
HSK 7-9
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
(bird species of China) white-crested laughingthrush (Garrulax leucolophus)
lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong
not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
"angel in white" (laudatory term for a nurse)
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  *皎* | 皎* | *皎
bright / white
orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) / "chicken butt", popular Taiwan snack on a stick, made of marinated "white cut chicken" butt
milk from a woman's breast / milk (used in the names of dishes to indicate white sauce)
white goods (such as refrigerators and washing machines)
white of the eye
milky white / cream color
wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida) / white gourd / white hairy melon / Chinese squash
(bird species of China) white-necklaced partridge (Arborophila gingica)
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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  *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
plain white cloth / calico
white slave / (neologism that peaked in the 2000s–2010s) white-collar slave (office worker who is overworked and exploited)
white peppercorn
(bird species of China) white eared pheasant (Crossoptilon crossoptilon)
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
White (name)
Snow White
(Tw) radish, esp. white radish 白蘿蔔|白萝卜 / CL:
white lie
neutrophil (the most common type of white blood cell)
to have bright eyes and white teeth
colored / non-white / non-ferrous (metals)
cotton boll splits open and reveals its white interior
(bird species of China) white-collared yuhina (Parayuhina diademata)
White Terror
White Lotus society
(name of a person) Bai Suzhen, from Madame White Snake
white or gray hair / CL:
Tale of the White Snake / Madame White Snake
white mouse / lab mouse; lab rat / (fig.) human guinea pig
daikon; white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
white man or woman; Caucasian
Stevenson screen (white box with ventilated sides, housing meteorological instruments) / thermometer screen / instrument shelter
(literary) lofty; towering / (literary) glistening white / (literary) hard; solid / (literary) piled up
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
to be suffused with white; faded; bleached / to blanch
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
dysentery characterized by white mucous stool / white diarrhea
white dwarf
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  *皝* | 皝* | *皝
luminous / bright hoary, white
enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white
oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon
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  *皚* | 皚* | *皚
(literary) white as snow
lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom) / fig. to rush to the rescue / to play the white knight
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
microphage (a type of white blood cell)
white rabbit / (fig.) (slang) breast
White House
anthracite / hard coal / white coal / waterpower
white phosphorus
shining white
White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd September
sardonyx (gemstone of brown-white striped chalcedony)
radiance / silver white sheen
(idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background
bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)
white flag
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
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
milk cabbage (aka "white bok choy" and various other names), a variety of bok choy
egg white / protein / albumen

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