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- 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
- white slave
- (neologism that peaked in the 2000s–2010s) white-collar slave (office worker who is overworked and exploited)
- White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky)
- (slang) hairless female genitalia
- to visit a prostitute without paying
- (slang) to consume a service without paying
Trad. 白讀
- colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
- Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC
- same as 公孫起|公孙起
Trad. 白軍
- White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
- (astronomy) the moon's path around the earth
- legitimate, lawful activities (contrasted with 黑道[hei1 dao4])
- law-abiding citizenry
- baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum
- (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒[bai2 pu2 tao5 jiu3])
- (slang) novice; greenhorn
- (old) (slang) fool; idiot
- abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy
- day care for the elderly (abbr. of 白天托管[bai2 tian1 tuo1 guan3])
- to be blinded by greed
- swindler (homonym of 拜託|拜托[bai4 tuo1])
- Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
- bulk baijiu (i.e. clear Chinese liquor) (abbr. for 散裝白酒|散装白酒[san3 zhuang1 bai2 jiu3])
- line drawing in traditional ink-and-brush style
- simple and straightforward style of writing
Trad. 補白
- to fill a gap (e.g. a gap in knowledge or blank space in a print layout)
- to make some additional remarks
- filler (in a newspaper or magazine)
- the text of an annotated book
- an unannotated edition of a book
- intagliated characters (on a seal)
Trad. 辯白
- to offer an explanation
- to plead innocence
- to try to defend oneself
Trad. 白朮
- the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes (Atractylodes macrocephaia)
- Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd September
- reverse type (white on black)
- reversed-out (graphics)
- highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)
- clear; obvious; unequivocal
- sensible; reasonable
- to understand; to realize
Trad. 白樸
- Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
- Baisha (common place name)
- Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan
- Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县[Peng2 hu2 xian4] (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
- to reveal one's valuables inadvertently
- to betray one's silver (money) when traveling
- Baihe County in Ankang 安康[An1 kang1], Shaanxi
- Paiho town in Tainan County 台南縣|台南县[Tai2 nan2 xian4], Taiwan
Trad. 白湯
- clear soup
- white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤[nai3 tang1]
- decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
- (of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light
- (old) wine cup
- (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash)
- (coll.) (neologism c. 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)
- Baiyü county (Tibetan: dpal yul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
Trad. 白鯨
- Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville 赫曼·麥爾維爾|赫曼·麦尔维尔[He4 man4 Mai4 er3 wei2 er3]
Trad. 白鶴
- (bird species of China) Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus)
- to give sb a dirty look; to cast a supercilious glance
- a disdainful look
- to leave a message
- to leave some empty space in a work of art
- to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
Trad. 長白
- see 長白朝鮮族自治縣|长白朝鲜族自治县[Chang2 bai2 Chao2 xian3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- to announce publicly
- to explain oneself
- to reveal one's feelings
- to confess
- to declare one's love