(bái) - white, blank, in vain, plainly in Mandarin
báiTraditional: 白
Translation
white, blank, in vain, plainly
Word origin
A pictograph generally taken to depict a grain of rice or the rays of the rising sun, from which the sense of white and bright derives.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- 白 (a grain or beam of light, depicting whiteness)
Stroke order
白
Examples
裙。
She wore a white dress.
。
We set off before it was light.
趟。
I made this trip for nothing.
墙。
The wall is a blank space.
。
His hair has turned white.
白 (bái) primarily means white, and by extension blank, plain, or in vain (as in 白跑, a wasted trip). It is one of the basic colour terms and a very productive character.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 白.
Used in
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