Chinese Word of the Day
白色bái sè
white
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
白色 | báisè | |
1. n. white (color) | ||
2. adj. (figurative, attributive) reactionary | ||
3. adj. (figurative) related to plastic | ||
English > Chinese | ||
white | ||
1. 名词. 白色 | ||
Components | ||
白 | bái, bó | |
1. white | ||
白色 (báisè) - white color | ||
白茶 (báichá) - white tea | ||
2. clear; easy to understand | ||
明白bai (míngbai) - clear, obvious | ||
淺白 (qiǎnbái) - simple | ||
3. clear; pure; plain; blank | ||
白紙 (báizhǐ) - a blank sheet of paper | ||
白卷 (báijuǎn) - blank exam paper | ||
白水 (báishuǐ) - plain water | ||
白粥 (báizhōu) - plain congee | ||
4. bright; well-lit | ||
5. eminent; prominent | ||
6. vernacular | ||
白話 (báihuà) - spoken language | ||
7. dialect | ||
蘇白 (sūbái) - Suzhou dialect | ||
京白 (jīngbái) - Beijing dialect | ||
8. Short for 白讀 (gloss=colloquial reading) | ||
9. reactionary; anticommunist | ||
白軍 (báijūn) - The White army | ||
白區 (báiqū) - The White area | ||
白色恐怖 (báisèkǒngbù) - the White terror | ||
10. in vain; for nothing | ||
我們 沒有 白 忙。 - Our efforts were not in vain. | ||
她 白 等 了。 - She waited in vain. | ||
他們 的 血 沒有 白 流。 (Tāmen de xuè méiyǒu bái liú.) - Their blood was not shed in vain. | ||
所有 的 工作 都 白 做 了。 (Suǒyǒu de gōngzuò dōu bái zuò le.) - All the work has been done for nothing. | ||
白 來 一趟 (bái lái yītàng) - to come in vain; to come for nothing | ||
白給 的 東西xi (báigěi de dōngxi) - something given for nothing | ||
11. free of charge; gratuitous; gratis | ||
你 可以 白 拿走 這 些 蘋果。 (Nǐ kěyǐ bái názǒu zhè xiē píngguǒ.) - You can have these apples for free. | ||
12. to stare coldly; to stare at someone with the white of the eyes | ||
她 生氣 地de 白 了 他 一眼。 (Tā shēngqì de bái le tā yīyǎn.) - She gave him an angry stare. | ||
13. to explain; to present; to state | ||
自白 (zìbái) - explain oneself, confess | ||
開場白 (kāichǎngbái) - preamble | ||
表白 (biǎobái) - to explain oneself | ||
辯白 (biànbái) - to explain, to defend oneself | ||
14. to mispronounce or wrongly write a character | ||
我 老是 寫 白 字 讀破句。 (Wǒ lǎoshì xiě bái zì dúpòjù.) - I always mispronounce words and break my sentences up in the wrong places. | ||
我 把 這 字 念 白 了。 (Wǒ bǎ zhè zì niàn bái le.) - I've mispronounced the character. | ||
15. spoken lines | ||
念白 (niànbái) - spoken parts of a Chinese opera | ||
道白 (dàobái) - spoken parts of a Chinese opera | ||
獨白 (dúbái) - monologue | ||
對白 (duìbái) - dialogue | ||
16. funeral | ||
紅白喜事 (hóngbáixǐshì) - weddings and funerals | ||
17. . Bai | ||
白 崇-禧 (Bái Chóngxǐ) - Bai Chongxi | ||
18. Bai, an ethnic group living primarily in Yunnan, China | ||
色 | sè, shǎi, shè | |
1. color; tint; hue; shade | ||
顏色 - color | ||
顏色shǎi兒r - color | ||
紅色 - red | ||
四.色.定理 - four color theorem | ||
2. look; expression | ||
臉色 - facial expression | ||
3. scenery; circumstance | ||
景色 - scenery | ||
夜色 - night scenery | ||
4. kind; sort | ||
貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification | ||
5. feminine charm; beauty | ||
姿色 - good looks (of women) | ||
6. lust; sexual desire | ||
好hào色 - to lust for women | ||
色情 - pornography; sexual desire | ||
7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous | ||
8. theatrical role | ||
角jué色 - role; part | ||
9. metallic content | ||
成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy) | ||
10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) | ||
色shǎi子zi - die | ||
11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.) | ||
色 即 是 空,空 即 是 色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. | ||
12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate) | ||
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