白
bái HSK1

white

白 bái
white adjective
white; snowy; pure; bright; (literary) white; bright

那匹马不是白的。

nà pǐ mǎ bù​shì bái de.

That horse is not white.

世界并不是非白即黑。

shì​jiè bìng bù​shì fēi bái jí hēi.

The world is not black and white.

clear verb
clear; obvious; easy to understand
plain adjective
plain; blank; empty; having no additions, such as water with no tea leaves or food with no condiments

留白空间不一定要是白色的。

liú bái kōng​jiān bù yī​dìng yào shì bái​sè de.

White space does not necessarily have to be white.

to state verbadjective
to state; to explain; to tell; to report
[vain] adverb
in vain; for nothing; without any result

你父亲不会白死的。

nǐ fù​qīn bù​huì bái sǐ de.

Your father will not have died in vain.

pure adjectivenoun
pure; clean; stainless
[free]
free of charge; gratuitous; without cost
[spoken part]
the spoken parts in an opera or play as opposed to the singing parts; dialogue; monologue
vernacular
spoken language; vernacular; colloquial speech
wrong
(bound form) incorrectly written or mispronounced character
[disdain]
to stare coldly at someone; to look askance at; to show disdain by showing the whites of the eyes
reactionary
symbolizing political reaction or anti-communism
[funeral]
symbolizing death or mourning; funeral
Bai (ethnic group)
the Bai ethnic minority of southwest China
Bai (surname)
a common Chinese surname
edible stem
the white, tender stem or leaf sheath of certain plants such as scallions or wild rice stems
Belarus
abbreviation for Belarus 白俄罗斯 bái'é​luó​sī
correspondence
an honorific used after one's name in letters to equals or juniors

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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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)