Measure word
- 件 jiàn item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc attested in use
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
- 只 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc attested in use
- 把 bǎ to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle... attested in use
- 条 tiáo strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
白
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
色
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他把門漆成了白色。
He painted the door over white.
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印度国旗叫做「三色旗」，因为它是由三条不同颜色的色条组成的 ﹣ 橙黄色、白色和绿色。
The Indian flag is called the tricolour because it has stripes of three colours – saffron, white and green.
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她有两只猫。一只是白色的，另一只是黑色的。
She has two cats. One is black, and the other is white.
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我有两条狗。一条是白色的，另一条是黑色的。
I have two dogs. One is white and the other black.
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我花园里的一部分玫瑰是白色的，其他的是红色的。
Some of the roses in my garden are white, and the others are red.
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直子住在这个白色的房子里。
Naoko lives in this white house.
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这匹马不是白色的。
The horse is not white.
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那把白色阳伞是她的。
That white parasol is hers.