白
báiTraditional: 白
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Translation
white; clear, plain
Stroke order
白
Examples
。
I understand what you mean.
色衬衫。
She wore a white shirt.
。
Don't act like a fool.
衬衫。
She wore a white shirt.
雪。
It's snowing white outside.
白 (bái) means white, and stretches metaphorically to mean clear or obvious. That second sense drives 明白 (to understand), where something becomes mentally white, plain, transparent.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 白.
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