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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
daytime / during the day / day / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
clear; obvious; unequivocal / sensible; reasonable / to understand; to realize
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
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
protein
HSK 7-9
blank space
HSK 7-9
honest / forthcoming / to confess
HSK 7-9
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
prologue of play / opening remarks / preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
HSK 7-9
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
to speak frankly
HSK 7-9
fibrous protein
to whiten (the skin or teeth)
(of skin etc) fair / delicate
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
(bird species of China) white-bellied redstart (Luscinia phaenicuroides)
Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
white phosphorus
(bird species of China) puff-throated bulbul (Alophoixus pallidus)
to live (somewhere) for free
spoken language / vernacular
Baiyukuang district of Baotou city 包頭市|包头市, Inner Mongolia
gap / empty space
white hole (cosmology)
long-nosed pit viper (agkistrodon acutus)
Baengnyeong township (South Korea) / see also 白翎島|白翎岛
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
(polished) rice
Pai Ping-ping (well-known Taiwan performing artist)
weddings and funerals
globulin
(bird species of China) collared myna (Acridotheres albocinctus)
(bird species of China) Chinese white-browed rosefinch (Carpodacus dubius)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *白* | 白* | *白
surname Bai
to visit a prostitute without paying / (slang) to consume a service without paying
Baiyun, a district of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市, Guangdong / Baiyun, a district of Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市, Guizhou
hand-to-hand fighting
(bird species of China) pine bunting (Emberiza leucocephalos)
newsprint
vitiligo
(bird species of China) Nepal fulvetta (Alcippe nipalensis)
idiocy / idiot
(bird species of China) light-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis)
deathly white
Baiyang Lake in Hebei
(bird species of China) yellow-rumped flycatcher (Ficedula zanthopygia)
(botany) common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)
ecliptic line / intersection of the ecliptic with the moon's orbit plane
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
(slang) novice; greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool; idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸, pretty boy
(bird species of China) lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca)
writings in the vernacular
hoar frost
form of rhymed baihua 白話|白话 in Beijing opera
(of skin) fair and clear
(bird species of China) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
(loanword) butter
(bird species of China) white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)
(bird species of China) white-spectacled warbler (Phylloscopus intermedius)
white heat / incandescence
Sufi sect of Islam in central Asia
cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
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
methemoglobin
(of complexion or skin) fair and clear
whitener / whitening agent
white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book
albinism
to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
the text of an annotated book / an unannotated edition of a book / intagliated characters (on a seal)
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
wrongly written or mispronounced character
pale / wan
white blood cell / leukocyte
white or gray hair / CL:
bones of the dead
(coll.) to talk rubbish
spotlessly white / pure white
white blood cell / leukocyte
(bird species of China) Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)
to turn pale / to lose color / to go white
whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
egg white / protein / albumen
face powder / chalk powder / heroin
to eat without paying / to freeload
(bird species of China) white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis)
(bird species of China) white-winged grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes)

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