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daytime / during the day / day / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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
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
in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white
HSK 7-9
white granulated sugar
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
no use / no good
(bird species of China) western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
(bird species of China) green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
muscovite; white mica
(polished) rice
(bird species of China) white-gorgeted flycatcher (Anthipes monileger)
hoar frost
Bainang county, Tibetan: Pa snam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
alcoholic spirit / strong white rice wine
to give sb a dirty look; to cast a supercilious glance / a disdainful look
Baiyü county (Tibetan: dpal yul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
white jade / tofu (by analogy)
Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)
"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)
wheat flour / flour / heroin
Pai Hsiao-yen (daughter of Pai Ping-ping)
(bird species of China) great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *白* | 白* | *白
surname Bai
(bird species of China) lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel)
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)
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)
leukemia
white cloud
(bird species of China) white-browed laughingthrush (Pterorhinus sannio)
daytime / sun / time
white or gray hair / CL:
Aries (star sign)
platinum / silver / white gold / (Singapore) money gift at a funeral
rock crystal (mineral)
white flag
hoary head / old age
poplar / CL:
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
(slang) stupid / moron
Baihe County in Ankang 安康, Shaanxi / Paiho town in Tainan County 台南縣|台南县, Taiwan
(bird species of China) white-necked laughingthrush (Garrulax strepitans)
(bird species of China) Kloss's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus ogilviegranti)
(bird species of China) Austen's brown hornbill (Anorrhinus austeni)
white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教
Baishui county in Weinan 渭南, Shaanxi
plain water
arctic fox
(bird species of China) white-throated rock thrush (Monticola gularis)
cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
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
pockmark
daytime
root of herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora), used in TCM
Buckingham Palace
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
a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies!
(of mist, snow, floodwater etc) a vast expanse of whiteness
silver
(of skin etc) fair / delicate
(of skin) fair and clear
spoken language / vernacular
snow
wrongly written or mispronounced character
Snow White
face powder / chalk powder / heroin
leukorrhea
Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville 赫曼·麥爾維爾|赫曼·麦尔维尔
beluga whale
vitiligo
bones of the dead
day shift
Dahurian angelica (Angelica dahurica) / root of Dahurian angelica (used in TCM)
white vinegar / plain vinegar
funeral / to explain (literary)
termite / white ant
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
(loanword) brandy
Bai (ethnic group)
chalk
(of complexion or skin) fair and clear
(to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
white man or woman; Caucasian
white rabbit / (fig.) (slang) breast
white heat / incandescence
(bird species of China) little egret (Egretta garzetta)

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