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clear; obvious; unequivocal / sensible; reasonable / to understand; to realize
HSK 1
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
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)
fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
dialogue (in a movie or a play)
HSK 7-9
spoken lines in opera
black and white / right and wrong / monochrome
HSK 7-9
ash-colored
to speak frankly / frank; open; blunt
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
Elizabeth / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
white of the eye
grizzled (hair)
milky white / cream color
perfectly clean / blameless / unimpeachable (idiom)
Elizabeth (name) / also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白
lipoprotein
to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
to whiten (the skin or teeth)
for no reason / gratuitously
Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡, Shaanxi / Venus
pure / innocent
the whole truth is revealed (idiom); everything becomes clear
fifty (years of age)
globulin
myosin (biochemistry)
open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous / openhearted / unselfish / magnanimous / broad-minded
casein (milk protein)
albumin
(idiom) obscure; dubious; shady
keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)
to offer an explanation / to plead innocence / to try to defend oneself
alpha globulin / alpha fetoprotein (AFP)
tubulin
actin
blank space
HSK 7-9
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
to be suffused with white; faded; bleached / to blanch
form of rhymed baihua 白話|白话 in Beijing opera
to bleach / to whiten
to figure out how to do something
reverse type (white on black) / reversed-out (graphics) / highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
aside (theater) / voice-over / background narration
egg white / protein / albumen
to make sth clean and white / (fig.) to whitewash / to launder money
(of sb's face) turning alternately green and white
spotlessly white / pure white
correction fluid (loanword from "Liquid Paper") (Tw)
Macbeth (name) / Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
bulk baijiu (i.e. clear Chinese liquor) (abbr. for 散裝白酒|散装白酒)
indigo white
Elizabeth (person name)
glycoprotein
pure white
to confuse black and white / to say that black is white / fig. not to distinguish right from wrong
to explain oneself
(slang) novice; greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool; idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸, pretty boy
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)
to answer
confession / to make clear one's position or intentions / to brag
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
methemoglobin
narrator / spoken parts in an opera
stage monologue / soliloquy
to inform / to notify
prologue of play / opening remarks / preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
HSK 7-9
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
Manchurian wild rice , aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
hemoglobin
deathly white
creamy white; ivory color
to propose / to suggest / to state a view
to rebuke; to reprimand
(dialect) cabbage
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)
silver white
snow white
Song Bai (936-1012), Northern Song literary man
simple / easy to understand
Yu Tianbai (1937-), novelist
pure white / spotlessly white
pale / wan
the white part of a green onion or scallion
to strip bark
opaque white
ciliary dynein protein
frosty
microalbumin
ricin (biochemistry)
to enumerate what is black and yellow (idiom); to criticize sb behind his back to incite quarrels / also written 數黑論黃|数黑论黄

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