| 白 | bái | 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; surname Bai |
| 白色 | bái sè | white; fig. reactionary; anti-communist |
| 白天 | bái tiān | daytime; during the day; day; CL:个 |
| 白话 | bái huà | spoken language; vernacular |
| 白菜 | bái cài | Chinese cabbage; pak choi; CL:棵, 个 |
| 白糖 | bái táng | (refined) white sugar |
| 白银 | bái yín | silver; Baiyin prefecture level city in Gansu |
| 白人 | bái rén | white man and woman |
| 白白 | bái bái | in vain; to no purpose; for nothing; white |
| 白细胞 | bái xì bāo | white blood cell; leucocyte |
| 白酒 | bái jiǔ | spirit usually distilled from sorghum or maize; white spirit |
| 白布 | bái bù | plain white cloth; calico |
| 白朗 | Bái lǎng | Bainang county, Tibetan: Pa snam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet |
| 白话文 | bái huà wén | vernacular Chinese |
| 白磷 | bái lín | white phosphorus |
| 白发 | bái fà | white or gray hair; CL:根 |
| 白居易 | Bái Jū yì | Bai Juyi (772-846), Tang dynasty poet |
| 白金 | bái jīn | platinum |
| 白粉 | bái fěn | whiting |
| 白蜡 | bái là | white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) |
| 白宫 | Bái gōng | White House |
| 白莲教 | Bái lián jiào | White Lotus society |
| 白云石 | bái yún shí | dolomite |
| 白日 | bái rì | daytime; sun; time |
| 白区 | bái qū | White Area |
| 白蜡虫 | bái là chóng | Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) |
| 白米 | bái mǐ | (polished) rice |
| 白旗 | bái qí | white flag |
| 白军 | bái jūn | White movement |
| 白玉 | bái yù | white jade; tofu (by analogy); Baiyü county (Tibetan: dpal yul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet) |
| 白杨 | bái yáng | poplar; CL:棵 |
| 白骨 | bái gǔ | bones of the dead |
| 白昼 | bái zhòu | daytime |
| 白面 | bái miàn | wheat flour; flour; white-faced |
| 白费 | bái fèi | waste |
| 白俄罗斯 | Bái é luó sī | Belarus; Byelorussia; White Russia |
| 白毛女 | bái máo nǚ | The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films |
| 白色恐怖 | Bái sè kǒng bù | White Terror |
| 白血球 | bái xuè qiú | white blood cell; leucocyte |
| 白铜 | bái tóng | copper-nickel alloy |
| 白水 | Bái shuǐ | Baishui county in Wèinán 渭南, Shǎnxī |
| 白痢 | bái lì | dysentery characterized by white mucous stool; white diarrhea |
| 白露 | Bái lù | Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 8th-22nd September |
| 白热 | bái rè | white heat; incandescence |
| 白沙 | Bái shā | Baisha (common place name); Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan; Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan |
| 白族 | Bái zú | Bai (ethnic group) |
| 白痴 | bái chī | idiocy; idiot |
| 白花花 | bái huā huā | shining white |
| 白浊 | bái zhuó | gonorrhea (old term); now written 淋病 |
| 白肉 | bái ròu | plain boiled pork |
