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白

bái

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 character level 1 Character

白 (bái) means "white; clear; blank". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 白 means

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

Example sentences

明白。

I understand.
不明白。

I don't understand.
明白了。

I got it.
我明白。

I get it.
我不明白。

I don't get it.
你不明白。

You don't understand.

Words starting with 白

Words containing 白

Characters built on 日

These share the phonetic component 日 (rì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

Characters that look like 白

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

Where 白 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Colors and Appearance (HSK 2), HSK 2 Characters · Set 8 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
How characters are built from components.
How to learn Chinese characters.
The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bái correctly.
Look up another word in the free dictionary.

Looking a word up is not learning it. GraphChinese puts all of HSK 1–6 into one dependency graph, teaches each piece only once its prerequisites are solid, and schedules reviews to land just before you would forget.

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