The Chinese word for white is
白色
bái sè
Chinese Definition
| white | |
| 1. 名词. 白色 | |
| Components | |
| 白 | |
| 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 | |
| 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) |
Translations for 色 and their definitions
| 白 | |
| 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 |
| 蛋白 | |
| 1. n. egg white; albumen | |
| 2. n. Short for 蛋白質 (protein) |
| 白色 | |
| 1. n. white (color) | |
| 2. adj. (figurative, attributive) reactionary | |
| 3. adj. (figurative) related to plastic |
| 白人 | |
| 1. n. white person; Caucasian |
| 卵白 | |
| 1. n. egg white, albumen |
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