白
bái
Pinyin

Definition

白
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bái
  1. white
  2. snowy
  3. pure
  4. bright
  5. empty
  6. blank
  7. plain
  8. clear
  9. to make clear
  10. in vain
  11. gratuitous
  12. free of charge
  13. reactionary
  14. anti-communist
  15. funeral
  16. to stare coldly
  17. to write wrong character
  18. to state
  19. to explain
  20. vernacular
  21. spoken lines in opera
白
 - 
Bái
  1. surname Bai

Character Decomposition

Compounds (41)

的
de
  1. 1 of
  2. 2 ~'s (possessive particle)
  3. 3 (used after an attribute)
  4. 4 (used to form a nominal expression)
  5. 5 (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
的
dī
  1. 1 see also: 的士 dī shì
的
dí
  1. 1 really and truly
的
dì
  1. 1 aim
  2. 2 clear
原
Yuán
  1. 1 Hara (Japanese surname)

Related Words (20)

明白
míng bai
  1. 1 clear
  2. 2 obvious
  3. 3 unequivocal
  4. 4 to understand
  5. 5 to realize
白
Bái
  1. 1 surname Bai
白天
bái tiān
  1. 1 daytime
  2. 2 during the day
  3. 3 day
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
白羊座
Bái yáng zuò
  1. 1 Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
白色
bái sè
  1. 1 white
  2. 2 fig. reactionary
  3. 3 anti-communist

Idioms (20)

一清二白
yī qīng èr bái
  1. 1 perfectly clean
  2. 2 blameless
  3. 3 unimpeachable (idiom)
不分皂白
bù fēn zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
不分青红皂白
bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
  2. 2 not to distinguish between right and wrong
不问青红皂白
bù wèn qīng hóng zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
  2. 2 not to distinguish between right and wrong
俨如白昼
yǎn rú bái zhòu
  1. 1 as bright as daylight (idiom)

Sample Sentences

坦白说，你们的商品质量太低了，我不想和你们一起合作。
tǎnbáishuō ，nǐmen de shāngpǐn zhìliàng tài dī le ，wǒ bùxiǎng hé nǐmen yīqǐ hézuò 。
Frankly speaking, your products are not up to standards. I wouldn’t like to cooperate with you.
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能坦白说吗？
néng tǎnbáishuō ma ？
Can I be frank with you?
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坦白说，我有不同的看法。
tǎnbáishuō ，wǒ yǒu bùtóng de kànfǎ 。
Frankly speaking, I share a different opinion.
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你需要一个团队，我明白。可是老板还没同意。
nǐ xūyào yīgē tuánduì ，wǒ míngbai 。kěshì lǎobǎn hái méi tóngyì 。
I understand that you need a team. But our boss hasn’t given us the green light/
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我明白，但是我不太同意。
wǒ míngbai ，dànshì wǒ bù tài tóngyì 。
I understand, but I don’t really agree with it.
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她要她的白马王子眼睛大，眉毛浓，头发微微自然卷，个子还要高，最重要的是要有钱，要能常常买新衣服，买她想要的东西给她。
tā yào tā de báimǎwángzǐ yǎnjing dà ，méimao nóng ，tóufa wēiwēi zìrán juǎn ，gèzi hái yào gāo ，zuì zhòngyào de shì yào yǒuqián ，yào néng chángcháng mǎi Xīn yīfu ，mǎi tā xiǎngyào de dōngxi gěi tā 。
She wants her Prince Charming to have big eyes, thick eyebrows, slightly curly hair, to be tall, and above all, to have money, to be able to buy new clothes and what she wants all the time.
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他小的时候，他妈叫他去买红糖，他买了白糖回来。他妈骂他，他摇摇头说：“红糖白糖不是差不多吗？”
tā xiǎo de shíhou ，tā mā jiào tā qù mǎi hóngtáng ，tā mǎi le báitáng huílai 。tā mā mà tā ，tā yáo yáotóu shuō ：“hóngtáng báitáng búshi chàbuduō ma ？”
When he was a child, his mother sent him out to buy some brown sugar. He came back with white sugar. His mother scolded him – but the young Mr. Chabuduo simply shook his head and said, “Brown sugar and white sugar! Are they not the same?”
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白酒
bái jiǔ
Chinese liquor
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比如沙漠里的动物—狮子、鸟、蜥蜴、蜘蛛、青蛙等等—大多数都有微黄的“沙漠色”作为它们的保护色；深海生物则因为红光不易穿透到深海，所以这里的鱼大多是红色的；而雪地上的动物—比如北极熊、北极兔—则会披上一层白色，让它们能安稳地藏在雪白世界中。
bǐrú shāmò lǐ de dòngwù —shīzi 、niǎo 、xīyì 、zhīzhū 、qīngwā děngděng —dàduōshù dōu yǒu wēi huáng de “shāmò sè ”zuòwéi tāmen de bǎohùsè ；shēnhǎi shēngwù zé yīnwèi hóng guāng bùyì chuāntòu dào shēnhǎi ，suǒyǐ zhèlǐ de yú dàduō shì hóngsè de ；ér xuě dì shàng de dòngwù —bǐrú běijíxióng 、běijí tù —zé huì pī shàng yī céng báisè ，ràng tāmen néng ānwěn de cáng zài xuěbái shìjiè zhōng 。
For example, in the desert, lions, birds, lizards, spiders, frogs and so on all have a light yellow “desert color” as their camouflage. Creatures in the deep ocean are often red because light cannot be easily shunned through in the deep sea. Lastly, animals that live in the snow, such as Polar Bears and Arctic Rabbits, will have a coat of white so that they can hide peacefully in the snowfield.
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我们都知道常年冰天雪地的地方少之又少，由此​可见白色的动物为何如此罕见了。
wǒmen dōu zhīdào chángnián bīngtiānxuědì de dìfang shǎozhīyòushǎo ，yóu cǐ kě jiàn báisè de dòngwù wèihé rúcǐ hǎnjiàn le 。
We all know that there are only a few places in the world that are covered in snow so that’s why it is quite rare to see animals that are white.
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