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white adjective—白 adj (almost always used) ()白色 adj ()Examples:white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)—not distinguishing red-blue or black-white (idiom); not distinguish between right and wrong—invert (upside-down, inside-out, back-to-front, white to black etc)—brilliant white snow cover (esp. of distant peaks)—not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not distinguish between right and wrong—redneck (mildly disparaging term for poor white Americans, sim. hillbilly)—red-blue or black-white (idiom); the rights and wrongs of a case—The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films—white flowered gourd or calabash (family Crescentia)—the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps—Stevenson screen (white box with ventilated sides, housing meteorological instruments)—basophil granulocyte (type of white blood cell)—Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"—five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue)—white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age—(name of a person) Bai Suzhen, from Madame White Snake—cotton boll splits open and reveals its white interior—white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation)—white broth, or milky broth: an unctuous, milky white pork broth of Chinese cuisine—Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake)—sardonyx (gemstone of brown-white striped chalcedony)—beautiful eyebrow and white teeth (idiom); lovely young woman—mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral show filial piety—Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza, Kenya, on the White Nile—lit. white cogon flower like fire (idiom); fig. a mighty army like wildfire—slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon—contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup)—white teeth and vermilion lips (idiom); lovely young woman—Bai Ze or White Marsh, legendary creature of ancient China—can't tell black from white (idiom); unable distinguish wrong from right—mythical animal, said have yellow body and white tail—Baihequan (Fujian White Crane) martial art form—bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)— |