| Component |
Pinyin |
Meanings |
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| 白 |
bái, bó |
1. white |
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白色 (báisè) - white color |
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白茶 (báichá) - white tea |
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2. clear; easy to understand |
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明白bai (míngbai) - clear, obvious |
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淺白 (qiǎnbái) - simple |
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3. clear; pure; plain; blank |
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白紙 (báizhǐ) - a blank sheet of paper |
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白卷 (báijuǎn) - blank exam paper |
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白水 (báishuǐ) - plain water |
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白粥 (báizhōu) - plain congee |
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4. bright; well-lit |
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5. eminent; prominent |
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6. vernacular |
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白話 (báihuà) - spoken language |
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7. dialect |
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蘇白 (sūbái) - Suzhou dialect |
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京白 (jīngbái) - Beijing dialect |
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8. Short for 白讀 (gloss=colloquial reading) |
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9. reactionary; anticommunist |
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白軍 (báijūn) - The White army |
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白區 (báiqū) - The White area |
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白色恐怖 (báisèkǒngbù) - the White terror |
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10. in vain; for nothing |
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我們 沒有 白 忙。 - Our efforts were not in vain. |
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她 白 等 了。 - She waited in vain. |
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他們 的 血 沒有 白 流。 (Tāmen de xuè méiyǒu bái liú.) - Their blood was not shed in vain. |
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所有 的 工作 都 白 做 了。 (Suǒyǒu de gōngzuò dōu bái zuò le.) - All the work has been done for nothing. |
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白 來 一趟 (bái lái yītàng) - to come in vain; to come for nothing |
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白給 的 東西xi (báigěi de dōngxi) - something given for nothing |
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11. free of charge; gratuitous; gratis |
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你 可以 白 拿走 這 些 蘋果。 (Nǐ kěyǐ bái názǒu zhè xiē píngguǒ.) - You can have these apples for free. |
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12. to stare coldly; to stare at someone with the white of the eyes |
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她 生氣 地de 白 了 他 一眼。 (Tā shēngqì de bái le tā yīyǎn.) - She gave him an angry stare. |
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13. to explain; to present; to state |
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自白 (zìbái) - explain oneself, confess |
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開場白 (kāichǎngbái) - preamble |
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表白 (biǎobái) - to explain oneself |
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辯白 (biànbái) - to explain, to defend oneself |
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14. to mispronounce or wrongly write a character |
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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. |
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我 把 這 字 念 白 了。 (Wǒ bǎ zhè zì niàn bái le.) - I've mispronounced the character. |
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15. spoken lines |
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念白 (niànbái) - spoken parts of a Chinese opera |
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道白 (dàobái) - spoken parts of a Chinese opera |
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獨白 (dúbái) - monologue |
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對白 (duìbái) - dialogue |
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16. funeral |
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紅白喜事 (hóngbáixǐshì) - weddings and funerals |
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17. . Bai |
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白 崇-禧 (Bái Chóngxǐ) - Bai Chongxi |
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18. Bai, an ethnic group living primarily in Yunnan, China |
色 |
sè, shǎi, shè |
1. color; tint; hue; shade | |
顏色 - color |
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顏色shǎi兒r - color |
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紅色 - red |
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四.色.定理 - four color theorem |
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2. (zh-no-solo) look; expression |
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臉色 - facial expression |
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3. (zh-no-solo) scenery; circumstance |
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景色 - scenery |
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夜色 - night scenery |
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4. kind; sort |
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貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification |
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5. feminine charm; beauty |
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姿色 - good looks (of women) |
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6. lust; sexual desire |
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好hào色 - to lust for women |
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色情 - pornography; sexual desire |
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7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous |
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8. theatrical role |
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角jué色 - role; part |
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9. metallic content |
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成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy) |
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10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) |
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色shǎi子zi - die |
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11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.) |
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色 即 是 空，空 即 是 色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. |
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12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate) |
