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

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).

白 character breakdown

"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]

This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

Characters with 白 as component

old variant of 兜[dou1]

= + + : Sun Wukong (儿) and Don Quixote (d) are teasing and running in circles (兜) around Erich Honecker (卬) in front of the outhouse (ou1), and he has no other choice but to wave with his white flag (白).
variant of 迫[po4] / to persecute / to oppress / embarrassed

= + : Pinocchio (p) is hiding in the observatory's bathroom (o4), but his persecutors are about to break in. Pinocchio blocked the door with a heap of gladiator sandals (辶), but they are about to break through. He is forced (迫) to wave his white flag (白) and give up.
old variant of 綿|绵[mian2] / cotton
variant of 皓[hao4] / spotlessly white
white (of snow etc)
bright / brilliant
white
black / police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them
(used in place names)
see 開皌|开皌[kai1 mo4]
see 皒皒[e2 e2]
white

Words with 白

obscure / dubious / shady
unrighted wrong / unredressed injustice
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
(bird species of China) intermediate egret (Egretta intermedia)
perfectly clean / blameless / unimpeachable (idiom)
baby bok choy / Shanghai bok choy
not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong

Sentences with 白

wǒ
shì
tia̅n
go̅ng
tài
bái
ji̅n
xi̅ng