白

bái = b + ai2

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

白 = 丶 + 日 : 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

白
- 丶
- 日
  - 一
  - 囗

zhǔ = zhu + Ø3

"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).

rì = r + Ø4

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan

rì = r + Ø4

sun / day / date, day of the month

日 = 囗 + 一 : 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

jiǎo = ji + ao3

surname Jiao

jiǎo = ji + ao3

sparkling / bright

lì = li + Ø4

luster (of pearls)

piǎo = pi + ao3

white

jiào = ji + ao4

pure

pa̅ = p + a1

old variant of 葩[pa1]

Words with 白

honest / forthcoming / to confess

to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love

Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath

round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)

bok choy / Chinese cabbage / Brassica pekinensis / CL:棵[ke1]

whitener / whitening agent

polymorphonuclear leukocyte

a white paint applied to tree trunks to protect the trees from insect damage etc

to play the role of the villain (idiom)

(bird species of China) Himalayan white-browed rosefinch (Carpodacus thura)

Sentences with 白

wǒ

shì

tia̅n

go̅ng

tài

bái

ji̅n

xi̅ng

I'm the Spirit of Planet Venus from the heavenly court.