白
bái
Meaning
- white
- in vain
- free of charge
- (of facts, the truth, a situation) clear · evident (for example, 真相大白 zhēn xiàng dà bái) · plain · without additions (for example, 白饭 bái fàn)
- to explain · to state (for example, 辩白 biàn bái)
- to give a disdainful look (for example, 白了他一眼 bái le tā yī yǎn)
- vernacular (for example, 白话 bái huà)
- spoken lines in opera (for example, 念白 niàn bái)
- reactionary · anti-communist (for example, 白区 bái qū)
- surname Bai
- Bai ethnic group
Example sentences
我的狗是白色的。
wǒ de gǒu shì bái sè de。
My dog is white.
我该向我妻子坦白吗？
我該向我妻子坦白嗎？
wǒ gāi xiàng wǒ qī zǐ tǎn bái ma？
Should I tell my wife the truth?
看来我们要过白色圣诞节了。
看來我們要過白色聖誕節了。
kàn lái wǒ men yào guò bái sè shèng dàn jié le。
Looks like we're going to have a white Christmas.