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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
clear; obvious; unequivocal / sensible; reasonable / to understand; to realize
HSK 1
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
blank space
HSK 7-9
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
honest / forthcoming / to confess
HSK 7-9
prologue of play / opening remarks / preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
HSK 7-9
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
to speak frankly / frank; open; blunt
ash-colored
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *白* | 白* | *白
surname Bai
to whiten (the skin or teeth)
to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
Qingbaijiang district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
pale / pallor
egg white / protein / albumen
aside (theater) / voice-over / background narration
to leave a message / to leave some empty space in a work of art / to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
snow white
(slang) novice; greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool; idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸, pretty boy
confession / to make clear one's position or intentions / to brag
to be suffused with white; faded; bleached / to blanch
spotlessly white / pure white
to bleach / to whiten
Changbai Korean autonomous county in Baishan 白山, Jilin
milky white / cream color
Bobai county in Yulin 玉林, Guangxi
Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡, Shaanxi / Venus
pale / wan
to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白)
pure / innocent
pure white
stage monologue / soliloquy
the white part of a green onion or scallion
silver white
deathly white
Elizabeth / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
Elizabeth (person name)
for no reason / gratuitously
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
the whole truth is revealed (idiom); everything becomes clear
(idiom) obscure; dubious; shady
spoken lines in opera
to reveal one's valuables inadvertently / to betray one's silver (money) when traveling
the rights and wrongs of a matter (idiom)
white of the eye
Manchurian wild rice , aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
creamy white; ivory color
open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous / openhearted / unselfish / magnanimous / broad-minded
perfectly clean / blameless / unimpeachable (idiom)
to offer an explanation / to plead innocence / to try to defend oneself
bright white
snow-white / spotless
to rebuke; to reprimand
pure white / spotlessly white
to fill a gap (e.g. a gap in knowledge or blank space in a print layout) / to make some additional remarks / filler (in a newspaper or magazine)
to explain oneself
not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
to confuse black and white / to say that black is white / fig. not to distinguish right from wrong
form of rhymed baihua 白話|白话 in Beijing opera
simple / easy to understand
opaque white
first soliloquy (introducing opera character)
to turn pale / to lose color / to go white
Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
narrator / spoken parts in an opera
to inform / to notify
fifty (years of age)
Macbeth (name) / Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
globulin
variant of 顯擺|显摆
to answer
casein (milk protein)
collagen
hemoglobin
to figure out how to do something
microalbumin
glycoprotein
variant of 斑白
ciliary dynein protein
lipoprotein
fibrous protein
actin
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
tubulin
keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)
indigo white
frosty
Song Bai (936-1012), Northern Song literary man
to strip bark
ricin (biochemistry)
albumin
myosin (biochemistry)
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
bulk baijiu (i.e. clear Chinese liquor) (abbr. for 散裝白酒|散装白酒)
alpha globulin / alpha fetoprotein (AFP)
fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally

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