柏

cedar / cypress / Taiwan pr. [bo2]

(used for transcribing names)

variant of 檗[bo4]

variant of 柏[bai3]

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

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

Berlin, capital of Germany

Dublin, capital of Ireland

Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher

asphalt / tar / pitch

cypress tree / Taiwan pr. [bo2 shu4]

tarred road / asphalt road

Berber people of North Africa

Zeppelin (name) / Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), inventor of the Zeppelin dirigible airship

pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb

Cecilia Cheung (1980-), Hong Kong actress and pop singer

Chinese juniper

Camembert (soft, creamy French cheese)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique