白
báiBái HSK1

white

白 bái frequency
white adjective
the color white; snowy, pure, or bright

云朵像白棉花一样大朵大朵地挂在天上。

yún​duǒ xiàng bái mián​hua yī​yàng dà duǒ dà duǒ de guà zài tiān shàng.

Large clouds hung in the sky like white cotton balls.

funeral expression
relating to funerals or mourning

红白喜事都要讲究礼节。

hóng bái xǐ​shì dōu yào jiǎng​jiu lǐ​jié.

Etiquette must be observed for both weddings and funerals.

in vain adverb
to no purpose or for nothing

我白等了一个小时，他还是没有出现。

wǒ bái děng le yī gè xiǎo​shí, tā hái​shi méi​yǒu chū​xiàn.

I waited for an hour in vain; he still didn't show up.

stare coldly verb
to turn the whites of one's eyes towards someone in a cold stare

他白了我一眼，什么也没说。

tā bái le wǒ yī yǎn, shén​me yě méi shuō.

He rolled his eyes at me and said nothing.

state verb
to state, to explain, or spoken lines in an opera

这场戏里，演员的白说得很有感情。

zhè cháng xì lǐ, yǎn​yuán de bái shuō de hěn yǒu gǎn​qíng.

In this play, the actor's spoken lines were delivered with great emotion.

vernacular adjective
vernacular or colloquial spoken language

这篇课文写得很白，小学生都能读懂。

zhè piān kè​wén xiě de hěn bái, xiǎo​xué​shēng dōu néng dú​dǒng.

This text is written in very plain language; even elementary school students can understand it.

wrong character adjective
to write or pronounce a character incorrectly

你又把这个字写白了，中间应该有两横。

nǐ yòu bǎ zhè​ge zì xiě bái le, zhōng​jiān yīng​gāi yǒu liǎng héng.

You wrote this character wrong again; there should be two horizontal strokes in the middle.

clear idiom
clear, easy to understand, or to make clear

这件案子经过一番调查，终于真相大白了。

zhè jiàn àn​zi jīng​guò yī fān diào​chá, zhōng​yú zhēn​xiàng​dà​bái le.

After an investigation, the truth about this case has finally come to light.

reactionary adjective
reactionary or anti-communist

这里以前是白区。

zhè​lǐ yǐ​qián shì bái​qū.

This area used to be a Kuomintang-controlled area.

白 Bái
Bai proper name
surname Bai

白先生是我们的邻居。

Bái xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men de lín​jū.

Mr. Bai is our neighbor.

Frequency
Character
Written text
286th most common 768.6 per million
Movie subtitles
195th most common 896.4 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
80.0 per million appears in 25% of films
Written text
165.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+767D

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)