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HSK
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
clear; obvious; unequivocal / sensible; reasonable / to understand; to realize
HSK 1
daytime / during the day / day / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒)
HSK 5
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
honest / forthcoming / to confess
HSK 7-9
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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
collagen
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism c. 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)
the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
(bird species of China) white-throated redstart (Phoenicurus schisticeps)
white hair (of animals) / see also 白髮|白发
protein
HSK 7-9
white chocolate
white chocolate (abbr. for 白巧克力)
(bird species of China) medium egret (Ardea intermedia)
fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
incandescent light
(bird species of China) white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)
Baiyin, a district of Baiyin City 白銀市|白银市, Gansu
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
Belarus
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
brilliant white snow cover (esp. of distant peaks)
White Day
spoken lines in opera
colloquial speech
plain boiled water
(bird species of China) Himalayan bulbul (Pycnonotus leucogenys)
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
bald eagle
milky white
ash-colored
to speak frankly / frank; open; blunt
white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting
idiocy / idiot
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
(bird species of China) white-crested laughingthrush (Garrulax leucolophus)
(bird species of China) bonin petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca)
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
(loanword) brandy
to visit a prostitute without paying / (slang) to consume a service without paying
(slang) the one that got away
(bird species of China) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
Elizabeth / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
Chinese cabbage; napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / CL:
Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
to go on an errand for nothing / to go on a wild-goose chase
IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
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
thankless wretch; an ingrate
leukemia
"angel in white" (laudatory term for a nurse)
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
to speak frankly
HSK 7-9
white goods (such as refrigerators and washing machines)
gilt-edged securities
white of the eye
to waste (one's energy etc)
grizzled (hair)
milky white / cream color
"Ms Perfect" (i.e. fair-skinned, rich and beautiful) (Internet slang)
whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
perfectly clean / blameless / unimpeachable (idiom)
unrighted wrong / unredressed injustice
Elizabeth (name) / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
Mt Taibai in Shaanxi
whitelist
(coll.) to talk rubbish
day shift
(bird species of China) white-necklaced partridge (Arborophila gingica)
ambulance (slang) (Cantonese)
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
lipoprotein
plain white cloth / calico
to eat without paying / to freeload
broad daylight
writings in the vernacular
leukotriene (biochemistry)
white slave / (neologism that peaked in the 2000s–2010s) white-collar slave (office worker who is overworked and exploited)
(polished) rice
(Internet slang) sweet, naive young woman
to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
to pester someone again and again
blank exam paper
no use / no good
to whiten (the skin or teeth)
for no reason / gratuitously
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
Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡, Shaanxi / Venus
pure / innocent
white peppercorn
Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
(bird species of China) white eared pheasant (Crossoptilon crossoptilon)

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