Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT

Welcome to the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary, the no. 1 Chinese study aid! This website offers more than just a Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary, it offers various tools such as: flashcards, quizzes, text annotation, Chinese text input, written Chinese and more. The MDBG dictionary is used in many schools and universities all over the world, discover why! Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!

Chinese dictionary for Windows 10

MDBG Chinese Reader is the perfect dictionary application for Microsoft Windows. Translate Chinese text and Lookup Mandarin pinyin for Chinese words easily. Just glide your mouse over the Chinese text and a pop-up window shows English translations and Mandarin pronunciations. Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!


handwriting
Auto complete input: off | on

100 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Simplified
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Traditional
HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 / fig. reactionary / anti-communist
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *练* | 练* | *练
to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk
HSK 2
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *霜* | 霜* | *霜
frost / white powder or cream spread over a surface / frosting / (skin) cream
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *素* | 素* | *素
raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever
HSK 7-9
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
entirely different / different as black and white
HSK 7-9
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
white granulated sugar
white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis)
muscovite; white mica
(literary) white as snow; pure white
(bird species of China) white-shouldered starling (Sturnia sinensis)
(bird species of China) white-gorgeted flycatcher (Anthipes monileger)
Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza, Kenya, on the White Nile
(bird species of China) white-bellied green pigeon (Treron sieboldii)
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
alcoholic spirit / strong white rice wine
white jade / tofu (by analogy)
"angel in white" (laudatory term for a nurse)
white goods (abbr. for 白色家電|白色家电)
(bird species of China) white-naped yuhina (Yuhina bakeri)
(bird species of China) great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
radiance / silver white sheen
deathly white
White Lotus society
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
(bird species of China) white-faced heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
(bird species of China) warbling white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
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)
eosinophil granulocyte (type of white blood cell)
(bird species of China) White's thrush (Zoothera aurea)
white beech mushroom (Hypsizygus tessellatus, cultivated white variety)
egg white / protein / albumen
white cloud
(bird species of China) white-browed laughingthrush (Pterorhinus sannio)
white or gray hair / CL:
to be suffused with white; faded; bleached / to blanch
monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
platinum / silver / white gold / (Singapore) money gift at a funeral
snow white
(bird species of China) Himalayan white-browed rosefinch (Carpodacus thura)
white flag
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
Tora Bora, cave complex in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan
white arsenic / arsenic trioxide As2O3
(bird species of China) white-necked laughingthrush (Garrulax strepitans)
(literary) lofty; towering / (literary) glistening white / (literary) hard; solid / (literary) piled up
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *颢* | 颢* | *颢
(literary) white and shining
spotlessly white / pure white
white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皓* | 皓* | *皓
(bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *暠* | 暠* | *暠
bright / white
(bird species of China) white-throated rock thrush (Monticola gularis)
a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies!
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *骆* | 骆* | *骆
camel / white horse with a black mane (archaic)
(of mist, snow, floodwater etc) a vast expanse of whiteness
smooth, uncooked shrimp paste made by mixing minced shrimp with starch and egg white, commonly added to hot pot
milky white / cream color
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *琅* | 琅* | *琅
jade-like stone / clean and white / tinkling of pendants
Snow White
frost and snow / (fig.) snowy white (hair) / adversity
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雒* | 雒* | *雒
black horse with white mane / fearful
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皎* | 皎* | *皎
bright / white
Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri)
five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored
pure white
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纨* | 纨* | *纨
(literary) fine white silk; delicate silk fabric
blue and white (porcelain)
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
the white part of a green onion or scallion
silver white
white vinegar / plain vinegar
(coll.) egg white
termite / white ant
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
White (name)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皑* | 皑* | *皑
(literary) white as snow
white man or woman; Caucasian
white rabbit / (fig.) (slang) breast
white heat / incandescence
(refined) white sugar
shining white
Fahai, name of the evil Buddhist monk in Tale of the White Snake 白蛇傳|白蛇传
White Crane Ridge at Fuling, Sichuan on the Changjiang River, that used to show above the water at dry periods, with famous carvings
oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon
white phosphorus
(bird species of China) white stork (Ciconia ciconia)
plain white cloth / calico
plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc)
enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white (abbr. to 金菇)
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
white night

More results available:



Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
© 2025 MDBG Made in Holland Made in Europe
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies