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

surname Jiao
sparkling / bright
luster (of pearls)
white
pure
old variant of 葩[pa1]

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