白 bái 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 syn 粉色 fěn sè pink / white / erotic / beautiful woman / powdered (with make-up) syn 小白兔 xiǎo bái tù small white rabbit / (fig.) innocent and naive person / (fig.) (slang) breast 霜雪 shuāng xuě frost and snow / (fig.) snowy white (hair) / adversity 鸡蛋清 雞蛋清 jī dàn qīng egg white 奶汁 nǎi zhī milk from a woman's breast / milk (used in the names of dishes to indicate white sauce) 骨瓷 gǔ cí bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash) 麦粒肿 麥粒腫 mài lì zhǒng sty (eyelid swelling) syn 白色 bái sè white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist syn 白领 白領 bái lǐng white-collar / white-collar worker 黑白 hēi bái black and white / right and wrong / monochrome syn 白云 白雲 bái yún white cloud 蛋白 dàn bái egg white / protein / albumen syn 白白 bái bái in vain / to no purpose / for nothing / white syn 雪白 xuě bái snow white syn 白发 白髮 bái fà white or gray hair / CL:根[gen1] 洁白 潔白 jié bái spotlessly white / pure white syn 白酒 bái jiǔ baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒[bai2 pu2 tao5 jiu3]) syn 眼皮 yǎn pí eyelid syn 白宫 白宮 bái gōng White House 白马 白馬 bái mǎ white horse 白虎 bái hǔ White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia 截然不同 jié rán bù tóng entirely different / different as black and white syn 对比度 對比度 duì bǐ dù contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast 五彩 wǔ cǎi five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored syn 有色 yǒu sè colored / non-white / non-ferrous (metals) syn 白糖 bái táng (refined) white sugar 不动声色 不動聲色 bù dòng shēng sè not a word or movement (idiom) / remaining calm and collected / not batting an eyelid syn 单色 單色 dān sè monochrome / monochromatic / black and white 银光 銀光 yín guāng silvery light / bright white light / shining white light 发白 發白 fā bái to turn pale / to lose color / to go white 反转 反轉 fǎn zhuǎn reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc) syn 冬瓜 dōng guā wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida) / white gourd / white hairy melon / Chinese squash 白人 bái rén white man or woman / Caucasian 白皮书 白皮書 bái pí shū white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book 玉手 yù shǒu lily-white hands 纯白 純白 chún bái pure white 小青 xiǎo qīng name of a person, Xiaoqing, from Madam White Snake 白热化 白熱化 bái rè huà to turn white-hot / to intensify / to reach a climax syn 乳白色 rǔ bái sè milky white 白细胞 白細胞 bái xì bāo white blood cell / leukocyte 白布 bái bù plain white cloth / calico 眼睑 眼瞼 yǎn jiǎn eyelid syn 银白 銀白 yín bái silver white 双眼皮 雙眼皮 shuāng yǎn pí double eyelid 单眼皮 單眼皮 dān yǎn pí single eyelid 怀特 懷特 huái tè White (name) 青花 qīng huā blue and white (porcelain) 面不改色 miàn bù gǎi sè (idiom) not bat an eyelid syn 煞白 shà bái deathly white syn 白花花 bái huā huā shining white syn 许仙 許仙 xǔ xiān name of a person, Xu Xian, from Madam White Snake 白莲 白蓮 bái lián white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教 白蚁 白蟻 bái yǐ termite / white ant 蛋清 dàn qīng (coll.) egg white syn 银耳 銀耳 yín ěr white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus syn 白兔 bái tù white rabbit / (fig.) (slang) breast syn 白蛇传 白蛇傳 bái shé zhuàn Tale of the White Snake / Madame White Snake 白萝卜 白蘿蔔 bái luó bo daikon / white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) syn 白露 bái lù Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd September 大白鲨 大白鯊 dà bái shā great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) 白骨精 bái gǔ jīng White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]) / (fig.) sly and cunning person syn 泛白 fàn bái to be suffused with white / faded / bleached / to blanch 白旗 bái qí white flag 白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (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 syn 汉白玉 漢白玉 hàn bái yù white marble / a type of white marble used for building and sculpting 皑皑 皚皚 ái ái (literary) white as snow / pure white syn 鸭梨 鴨梨 yā lí Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri) 白脸 白臉 bái liǎn white face / face painting in Beijing opera etc 四象 sì xiàng four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3] 砒霜 pī shuāng white arsenic / arsenic trioxide As2O3 syn 乳白 rǔ bái milky white / cream color syn 白夜 bái yè white night 白线 白線 bái xiàn white line (road markings) 小白鼠 xiǎo bái shǔ white mouse / lab mouse / lab rat / (fig.) human guinea pig 金针菇 金針菇 jīn zhēn gū enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white / abbr. to 金菇[jin1 gu1] 白砂糖 bái shā táng white granulated sugar 不分青红皂白 不分青紅皂白 bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong 白纸黑字 白紙黑字 bái zhǐ hēi zì (written) in black and white syn 白肉 bái ròu plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc) syn 白楊樹 白杨树 bái yáng shù white poplar (Populus bonatii) 白杨树 白楊樹 bái yáng shù white poplar (Populus bonatii) 白醋 bái cù white vinegar / plain vinegar syn 牵牛花 牽牛花 qiān niú huā white-edged morning glory 雷峰塔 léi fēng tǎ Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake) 下眼睑 下眼瞼 xià yǎn jiǎn lower eyelid 银鱼 銀魚 yín yú oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon 眼白 yǎn bái white of the eye syn 青花瓷 qīng huā cí blue and white porcelain 土族 tǔ zú Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai 白毛女 bái máo nǚ The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films 白莲教 白蓮教 bái lián jiào White Lotus society 白马寺 白馬寺 bái mǎ sì the Baima or White Horse Temple in Luoyang, one of the earliest Buddhist temples in China 秋霜 qiū shuāng autumn frost / fig. white hair as sign of old age 白蜡 白蠟 bái là white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) 白熊 bái xióng polar bear / white bear syn 白血球 bái xuè qiú white blood cell / leukocyte 鱼肚白 魚肚白 yú dù bái fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky) 莱温斯基 萊溫斯基 lái wēn sī jī Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern 