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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
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
daikon; white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
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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
to waste (one's energy etc)
white hair (of animals) / see also 白髮|白发
Byelorussian (person)
(bird species of China) white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)
(bird species of China) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
incandescent light
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
idiocy / idiot
(bird species of China) Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
to daydream / to indulge in wishful thinking
to visit a prostitute without paying / (slang) to consume a service without paying
to turn white-hot / to intensify / to reach a climax
a Prince Charming; the man of one's dreams
(slang) the one that got away
(bird species of China) Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)
to go on an errand for nothing / to go on a wild-goose chase
plain boiled water
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)
white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book
white goods (such as refrigerators and washing machines)
daytime
white blood cell / leukocyte
(bird species of China) Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae)
lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
"Ms Perfect" (i.e. fair-skinned, rich and beautiful) (Internet slang)
whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
(coll.) to talk rubbish
day shift
the white race
Baiyin, a district of Baiyin City 白銀市|白银市, Gansu
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person
plain white cloth / calico
Tale of the White Snake / Madame White Snake
silver
leukotriene (biochemistry)
white slave / (neologism that peaked in the 2000s–2010s) white-collar slave (office worker who is overworked and exploited)
(polished) rice
white goods (abbr. for 白色家電|白色家电)
bald eagle
blank exam paper
no use / no good
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
spoken language / vernacular
white peppercorn
White House
Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan
whitelist
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
the Baima or White Horse Temple in Luoyang, one of the earliest Buddhist temples in China
Belarus
Bai Juyi (772-846), Tang dynasty poet
Whitehall
sweet potato
Snow White
free verse in the vernacular
(idiom) (of a married couple) to live together until old age; to remain lifelong companions
leukorrhea
impeccable moral integrity
Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
Belarus
White Terror
dolomite (geology)
Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville 赫曼·麥爾維爾|赫曼·麦尔维尔
beluga whale
to live (somewhere) for free
cataract (ophthalmology)
white poplar (Populus bonatii)
Baiyang Lake in Hebei
a slight blemish
(slang) stupid / moron
Aries (star sign)
cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
White Tiger Hall, a Han dynasty palace hall in which the famous Virtuous Discussions Held in White Tiger Hall 白虎通德論|白虎通德论 were held under the aegis of Han Emperor Zhang 漢章帝|汉章帝
albumin
galvanized iron
lean type
old and gray-haired
white or gray hair / CL:
white man or woman; Caucasian
to freeload
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
vitiligo
vitiligo
(bird species of China) Przevalski's nuthatch (Sitta przewalskii)
common perilla

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