| 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 |
| 蛋白质 | dàn bái zhì | protein |
| 白色 | bái sè | white; fig. reactionary; anti-communist |
| 白天 | bái tiān | daytime; during the day; day; CL:个 |
| 坦白 | tǎn bái | honest; forthcoming; to confess |
| 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 |
| 黑白 | hēi bái | black and white; right and wrong; monochrome |
| 空白 | kòng bái | blank space |
| 白人 | bái rén | white man and woman |
| 灰白 | huī bái | colored; ash-colored |
| 白白 | bái bái | in vain; to no purpose; for nothing; white |
| 洁白 | jié bái | spotlessly white; pure white |
| 哥白尼 | Gē bái ní | Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath |
| 李白 | Lǐ Bái | Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet |
| 白细胞 | bái xì bāo | white blood cell; leucocyte |
| 苍白 | cāng bái | pale; wan |
| 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 |
| 雪白 | xuě bái | snow white |
| 白磷 | bái lín | white phosphorus |
| 黑白电视 | hēi bái diàn shì | black and white TV |
| 大白菜 | dà bái cài | bok choy; Chinese cabbage; Brassica pekinensis; CL:棵 |
| 发白 | fā bái | to turn pale; to lose color; to go white |
| 白发 | bái fà | white or gray hair; CL:根 |
| 乳白色 | rǔ bái sè | milky white |
| 白居易 | Bái Jū yì | Bai Juyi (772-846), Tang dynasty poet |
| 血红蛋白 | xuè hóng dàn bái | hemoglobin |
| 白金 | bái jīn | platinum |
| 白粉 | bái fěn | whiting |
| 白蜡 | bái là | white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) |
| 长白山 | Cháng bái shān | Changbai or Baekdu mountains 白头山, volcanic mountain range between Jilin province and North Korea, prominent in Manchu and Korean mythology |
| 白宫 | Bái gōng | White House |
| 白莲教 | Bái lián jiào | White Lotus society |
| 小白鼠 | xiǎo bái shǔ | little white mouse (esp. laboratory animal); fig. guinea pig, i.e. human participant in experiment |
| 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) |
| 对白 | duì bái | stage dialog |
| 白米 | bái mǐ | (polished) rice |
| 白旗 | bái qí | white flag |
| 表白 | biǎo bái | to explain oneself; to express; to reveal one's thoughts or feelings |
| 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) |
| 银白 | yín bái | silver white |
