白 (bái) means White (bright). Below are 20 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
冬天的 白 天很短。
Dōngtiān de báitiān hěn duǎn.
The days are short in winter.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 短
我明 白 你的意思了。
Wǒ míngbai nǐ de yìsi le.
I understand what you mean now.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 明白
这是我的猫，它叫小 白 。
Zhè shì wǒ de māo, tā jiào Xiǎo Bái.
This is my cat; it is called Xiao Bai.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 它
他今天穿了一件 白 衬衫。
Tā jīntiān chuān le yí jiàn bái chènshān.
He is wearing a white shirt today.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 衬衫
老师讲了两次，我才明 白 。
Lǎoshī jiǎng le liǎng cì, wǒ cái míngbai.
The teacher explained twice before I understood.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 明白
From the graded readers
我有一只猫，它叫小 白 。
wǒ yǒu yī zhī māo, tā jiào xiǎo bái.
I have a cat called Xiaobai.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat
小 白 是 白 色的，很漂亮。
xiǎo bái shì báisè de / dì, hěn piàoliang.
Xiaobai is white and very pretty.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat
我们家有一只猫，它叫小 白 。
wǒmen jiā yǒu yī zhī māo, tā jiào xiǎo bái.
We have a cat called Xiaobai.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Family
我很喜欢小 白 ，它是我的好朋友。
wǒ hěn xǐhuan xiǎo bái, tā shì wǒ de(possessive) hǎo / hào péngyou.
I love Xiaobai. He's my good friend.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat
小 白 很喜欢睡觉，也很喜欢吃东西。
xiǎo bái hěn xǐhuan shuìjiào, yě hěn xǐhuan chī dōngxī.
Xiaobai loves sleeping, and loves eating too.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Family
小 白 喜欢睡觉，一天睡很多个小时。
xiǎo bái xǐhuan shuìjiào, yī tiān shuì hěnduō gè xiǎoshí.
Xiaobai likes sleeping — he sleeps a lot of hours a day.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat
小 白 不喜欢水，可是它很喜欢吃鱼。
xiǎo bái bù xǐhuan shuǐ, kěshì tā hěn xǐhuan chī yú.
Xiaobai doesn't like water, but he loves eating fish.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat
我忽然明 白 ，时间带走的不只是样子。
wǒ hūrán míngbai, shíjiān dàizǒu de / dì bùzhǐ shì yàngzi.
I suddenly understood that what time takes away isn't only how you look.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
我也终于明 白 ，能长期做下去的，才叫努力。
wǒ yě zhōngyú míngbai, néng chángqī zuò xiàqu de / dì, cái jiào nǔlì.
And I finally understood that only what you can keep doing counts as effort.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
我走上台，看着下面那么多张脸，脑子忽然一片空 白 。
wǒ zǒushang tái, kànzhe xiàmian nàme duō zhāng liǎn, nǎozi hūrán yīpiàn kòngbái.
I walked on stage, looked at all those faces, and my mind went blank.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
那一刻我明 白 了，其实我一直都可以，只是不相信自己。
nà / nèi yīkè wǒ míngbaile, qíshí wǒ yìzhí dōu kěyǐ, zhǐshì bù xiāngxìn zìjǐ.
In that moment I understood that I'd always been able to — I just hadn't believed it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
那一刻我忽然明 白 ：不懂得拒绝的人，时间是不值钱的。
nà / nèi yīkè wǒ hūrán míngbai: bù dǒngde jùjué de / dì rén, shíjiān shì bùzhí qián de / dì.
In that moment I understood: for someone who can't refuse, their time is worth nothing.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
From the travel phrasebook
Words that contain 白
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 白
How is 白 used in a sentence?
This page shows 20 sentences using 白 (bái, "White (bright)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 白 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 白 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 白 an HSK word?
Yes — 白 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 白?
The dictionary page for 白 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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