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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – originally an acorn. The character acquired its current meaning of white from the color of the acorn’s flesh. The original meaning has been lost. (Compare – originally “nose”, now “self”.)

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Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

(radical 106 +0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹日 (HA), four-corner 26000)

  1. white
  2. pure, unblemished
  3. bright
  4. used as a surname

[edit] Derived characters

[edit] References


[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /paːk˨/

[edit] Hanzi

(jyutping baak6, Yale baak6)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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[edit] Compounds

[edit] Noun

(hiragana しろ, romaji shiro)

  1. white
  2. a white go stone
  3. innocence

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: baek, McCune-Reischauer: paek, Yale: payk)
  • Name (hangeul): 희다 (revised: huida, McCune-Reischauer: hŭida, Yale: huyta)

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[edit] Mandarin

simpl. and trad.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin bái (bai2), (bo2), Wade-Giles pai2, po2)

[edit] Adjective

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin bái)

  1. (Beginning Mandarin) white
  2. (Beginning Mandarin) clear; pure; plain; blank

[edit] Adverb

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin bái)

  1. (Elementary Mandarin) in vain

[edit] Usage notes

  • The reading is almost never used in spoken Mandarin. The most well-known usage of is in the name of a leading Tang dynasty poet Lǐ Bó (李白) (now commonly pronounced Lǐ Bái); this reading is decreasingly common in China.

[edit] Compounds

[edit] References

  • "" (in Mandarin/English). Pleco Dictionary. URL accessed on 2011-01-30.
  • 2000, Shao, Jingmin (ed.), HSK Dictionary (HSK汉语水平考试词典) (in Mandarin/English), Shanghai: Huadong Teachers College Publishers, ISBN 7561720785:
  • "" (in Mandarin/English). Dr. eye. URL accessed on 2011-01-30.

[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*bhæk)


[edit] Min Nan

simpl. and trad.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ peʔ˥˥ ]
  • IPA: [ pek˥˥ ]

[edit] Adjective

(traditional and simplified, POJ pe̍h)

  1. white

[edit] Adjective

(traditional and simplified, POJ pe̍k)

  1. used abstractly in compound words to convey the sense of transparent, unobscured or understandable

[edit] Usage notes

  • Read as pe̍h when by itself, and in most compounds. There are only a few compounds in which the pe̍k reading is used.

[edit] References

  • "" (in Taiwanese/English). On-line Taiwanese/Mandarin Dictionary (台文/華文線頂辭典). URL accessed on 2011-01-30.

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

白 (bạch, bạc)

[edit] Adjective

  1. white
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