white; in vain; free of charge; (bound form) (of facts, the truth, a situation) clear; evident (e.g. 真相大白[zhen1 xiang4 da4 bai2]); (bound form) plain; without additions (e.g. 白飯|白饭[bai2 fan4]); (bound form) to explain; to state (e.g. 辯白|辩白[bian4 bai2]); (bound form) to give a disdainful look (e.g. 白了他一眼[bai2 le5 ta1 yi1 yan3]); (bound form) vernacular (e.g. 白話|白话[bai2 hua4]); (bound form) spoken lines in opera (e.g. 念白[nian4 bai2]); (bound form) reactionary; anti-communist (e.g. 白區|白区[bai2 qu1])

surname Bai; Bai ethnic group

honest; forthcoming; to confess

pure; innocent

Elizabeth (person name)

in vain; to no purpose; for nothing; white

blank space

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

Elizabeth; also written 伊麗莎白|伊丽莎白

pale; wan

to explain oneself; to express; to reveal one's thoughts or feelings; declaration; confession

black and white; right and wrong; monochrome

egg white; protein; albumen

(slang) novice; greenhorn; (old) (slang) fool; idiot; abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy

aside (theater); voice-over; background narration

dialogue (in a movie or a play)

the whole truth is revealed (idiom); everything becomes clear

prologue of play; opening remarks; preamble (of speeches, articles etc)

Macbeth (name); Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚

to speak frankly; frank; open; blunt

to bleach; to whiten

snow white

(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light; (old) wine cup; (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash); (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)

spotlessly white; pure white

stage monologue; soliloquy

(idiom) obscure; dubious; shady

milky white; cream color

to inform; to notify

to explain oneself

fifty (years of age)

see 博白縣|博白县[Bo2 bai2 Xian4]

reverse type (white on black); reversed-out (graphics); highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)

to turn pale; to lose color; to go white

narrator; spoken parts in an opera

Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bao3 ji1], Shaanxi; Venus

Song Bai (936-1012), Northern Song literary man

for no reason; gratuitously

to propose; to suggest; to state a view

deathly pale

to rebuke; to reprimand

to answer

bulk baijiu (i.e. clear Chinese liquor) (abbr. for 散裝白酒|散装白酒[san3 zhuang1 bai2 jiu3])

grizzled; graying

to strip bark

variant of 顯擺|显摆[xian3 bai5]

Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet

to be suffused with white; faded; bleached; to blanch

to make sth clean and white; (fig.) to whitewash; to launder money

simple; easy to understand