白紙

See also: 白纸

Chinese

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	paper
trad. (白紙)		白	紙
simp. (白纸)		白	纸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): báizhǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ zi²
• Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): pa⁵ zhï³
• Eastern Min (BUC): băh-cāi
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ba⁷ zyor³ / ba⁷ zya³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pe̍h-chóa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: báizhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄓˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: báijhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: pai²-chih³
    • Yale: bái-jř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairjyy
    • Palladius: байчжи (bajčži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 白紙 / 白纸 白芷

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baak⁶ zi²
    • Yale: baahk jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚² t͡siː³⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 白子 白紙 / 白纸 白芷

• Hakka
  • (Changting)
    • Changting Pinyin: pa⁵ zhï³
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰa²¹ t͡ʃʐ̩⁴²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: băh-cāi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paʔ⁵⁻³³ ^(t͡s-)ʒai³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ba⁷ zyor³ [Phonetic: ba⁵ lyor³]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ba̍h-ciô̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa¹³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡s-)lyɒ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ba⁷ zya³ [Phonetic: ba⁵ lya³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa²⁴⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)lya³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-chóa
    • Tâi-lô: pe̍h-tsuá
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peqzoar
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ t͡sua⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sua⁵³/

Noun

白紙

1. blank sheet of paper (Classifier: 張／张 m c)
2. (figurative) one with no prior experience (in life, dating, expertise, etc.) (Classifier: 張／张 m)

   每個大學畢業生都是一張白紙。 [MSC, trad.]
   每个大学毕业生都是一张白纸。 [MSC, simp.]

   Měi ge dàxué bìyèshēng dōu shì yī zhāng báizhǐ. [Pinyin]

   Every university graduate has no work experience.

3. (archaic) money burnt for the dead
4. (Eastern Min) obituary

Synonyms

• (obituary):

Dialectal synonyms of 訃聞 (“obituary”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		訃聞, 訃告
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	訃聞, 訃告
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	訃聞, 訃告
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	告訃
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	訃告
Cantonese	Hong Kong	訃聞, 訃告
Gan	Nanchang	訃聞
Hakka	Meixian	訃帖
	Yudu	訃聞
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	訃聞
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	訃聞
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	訃聞
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	訃聞
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	訃聞
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	訃聞
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	白帖
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	訃聞
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	訃聞
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	訃聞
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	訃聞
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	訃聞
Jin	Taiyuan	訃聞
Northern Min	Jian'ou	訃聞
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	白紙, 訃音帖
Southern Min	Xiamen	白帖
	Quanzhou	白帖
	Zhangzhou	白帖
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	訃音, 白帖
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	訃音
	Kaohsiung	訃音
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	訃音
	Yilan (Luodong)	訃音
	Yilan (Toucheng)	訃音
	Changhua (Yongjing)	訃音, 白帖仔
	Tainan	白帖
	Tainan (Anping)	訃音
	Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng)	訃音, 訃聞
	Penghu (Xiyu)	訃音, 訃聞
	Jieyang	白帖
Wu	Shanghai	訃聞
	Suzhou	訃聞

Derived terms

• 白紙扇 / 白纸扇
• 白紙黑字 / 白纸黑字 (báizhǐhēizì)
• 空白紙 / 空白纸

References

• “白紙”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “白紙”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “白纸”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 481.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
白	紙
はく Grade: 1	し Grade: 2
on'yomi

Kanji in this term
白	紙
しら Grade: 1	かみ Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 白(はく) (haku, “white”) + 紙(し) (shi, “paper”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はくし [hàkúshí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠kɯ̟ɕi]

• (Tokyo) しらかみ [shìráꜜkàmì] (Nakadaka – [2])
• (Tokyo) しらかみ [shìrákámí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɾa̠ka̠mʲi]

Noun

白(はく)紙(し) or 白(しら)紙(かみ) • (hakushi or shirakami) 

1. white paper
2. blank paper

   問(もん)題(だい)が一(いち)問(もん)も解(と)けなかったので、解(かい)答(とう)用(よう)紙(し)を白(はく)紙(し)で出(だ)した。

   Mondai ga ichimon mo tokenakatta node, kaitō yōshi o hakushi de dashita.

   I couldn't solve even one question, so I submitted my answer sheet blank.

3. (figuratively) undecided status
   • 2020 February 12, “走(はし)るSL展(てん)示(じ)計(けい)画(かく)が白(はく)紙(し)に　名(な)古(ご)屋(や)市(し)科(か)学(がく)館(かん)、議(ぎ)会(かい)が反(はん)発(ぱつ)”, in 朝(あさ)日(ひ)新(しん)聞(ぶん)‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 February 2020:

     名(な)古(ご)屋(や)市(し)科(か)学(がく)館(かん)（中(なか)区(く)）が保(ほ)有(ゆう)する蒸(じょう)気(き)機(き)関(かん)車(しゃ)（S(エス)L(エル)）を敷(しき)地(ち)内(ない)で走(そう)行(こう)展(てん)示(じ)する計(けい)画(かく)について、市(し)教(きょう)育(いく)委(い)員(いん)会(かい)は白(はく)紙(し)に戻(もど)す方(ほう)針(しん)を明(あき)らかにした。

     Nagoya-shi Kagakukan (Naka-ku) ga hoyū suru jōki kikansha (esueru) o shikichinai de sōkō tenji suru keikaku ni tsuite, Shi Kyōiku Īnkai wa hakushi ni modosu hōshin o akiraka ni shita.

     With regards to the plan that the steam locomotive (SL) owned by Nagoya City Science Museum (located in Naka ward) is dynamically preserved in their site, the City Board of Education revealed the idea of cancelling it (returning it to a blank slate).

Derived terms

• 白(はく)紙(し)化(か) (hakushika): blanking (removal of content)

References

• “白紙”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja in this term
白	紙

Noun

白紙 • (baekji) (hangeul 백지)

1. hanja form^? of 백지 (“white paper; blank sheet of paper; square one; blank slate, tabula rasa”)