| Trad. | Simp. | Pinyin | English |
| 白 | bái | white; snowy; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous | |
| 白矮星 | bái ǎi xīng | white dwarf | |
| 白白 | bái bái | in vain; to no purpose; for nothing | |
| 白班兒 | 白班儿 | bái bān er | day shift |
| 白板 | bái bǎn | whiteboard | |
| 白報紙 | 白报纸 | bái bào zhǐ | newsprint |
| 白壁微瑕 | bái bì wēi xiá | a slight blemish | |
| 白壁無瑕 | 白壁无瑕 | bái bì wú xiá | impeccable moral integrity |
| 白冰冰 | Bái Bīng bīng | Pai Ping-ping (well-known Taiwan performing artist) | |
| 白布 | bái bù | plain white cloth; calico | |
| 白菜 | bái cài | Chinese cabbage | |
| 白城 | Bái chéng | (N) Baicheng (city in Jilin) | |
| 白城地區 | 白城地区 | Bái chéng dì qū | (N) Baicheng district (district in Jilin) |
| 白癡 | 白痴 | bái chī | idiot |
| 白熾 | 白炽 | bái chì | white heat; incandescence |
| 白搭 | bái dā | no use; no good | |
| 白蛋白 | bái dàn bái | albumin | |
| 白道 | bái dào | moon's path | |
| 白帝城 | Bái dì chéng | Baidi | |
| 白癜風 | 白癜风 | bái diàn fēng | vitiligo |
| 白俄羅斯 | 白俄罗斯 | Bái é luó sī | Belarus |
| 白堊 | 白垩 | bái è | chalk |
| 白堊紀 | 白垩纪 | bái è jì | Cretaceous (geological period) |
| 白堊世 | 白垩世 | bái è shì | Cretaceous (geological period) |
| 白飯 | 白饭 | bái fàn | plain cooked rice; rice with nothing to go with it |
| 白匪 | bái fěi | White bandits | |
| 白費 | 白费 | bái fèi | waste |
| 白粉 | bái fěn | (n) whitener | |
| 白粉病 | bái fěn bìng | powdery mildew | |
| 白乾兒 | 白乾儿 | bái gān ér | spirit |
| 白宮 | 白宫 | Bái gōng | White House |
| 白骨 | bái gǔ | bones of the dead | |
| 白骨頂 | 白骨顶 | bái gǔ dǐng | coot |
| 白果 | bái guǒ | ginkgo | |
| 白毫銀針 | 白毫银针 | Bái háo yín zhēn | Bai Hao Yinzhen tea |
| 白河 | Bái hé | (N) Baihe (place in Shaanxi) | |
| 白河鎮 | 白河镇 | Bái hé zhèn | (N) Paiho (town in Taiwan) |
| 白鶴 | 白鹤 | bái hè | white crane |
| 白喉 | bái hóu | diphtheria | |
| 白喉毒素 | bái hóu dú sù | diphtheria toxin | |
| 白喉杆菌 | bái hóu gān jūn | Klebs-Loeddler bacillus | |
| 白狐 | bái hú | arctic fox | |
| 白虎 | Bái hǔ | White Tiger (Chinese constellation) | |
| 白花花 | bái huā huā | shining white | |
| 白花蛇 | bái huā shé | long-nosed pit viper (agkistrodon acutus) | |
| 白話 | 白话 | bái huà | vernacular |
| 白化病 | bái huà bìng | albinism | |
| 白話文 | 白话文 | bái huà wén | vernacular Chinese |
| 白化症 | bái huà zhèng | albinism | |
| 白殭蠶 | 白僵蚕 | bái jiāng cán | the larva of silkworm with batrytis |
| 白金 | bái jīn | platinum | |
| 白金漢宮 | 白金汉宫 | Bái jīn hàn gōng | Buckingham Palace |
| 白頸鼬 | 白颈鼬 | Bái jǐng yòu | African Striped Weasel |
| 白淨 | 白净 | bái jìng | (of skin) fair and clear |
| 白酒 | bái jiǔ | spirit usually distilled from sorghum or maize; white spirit | |
| 白居易 | Bái Jū yì | Bai Juyi | |
| 白卷 | bái juàn | blank examine paper | |
| 白軍 | 白军 | bái jūn | White movement |
| 白開水 | 白开水 | bái kāi shuǐ | plain boiled water |
| 白口鐵 | 白口铁 | bái kǒu tiě | white iron |
| 白蠟 | 白蜡 | bái là | white wax; insect wax |
| 白蘭地 | 白兰地 | bái lán dì | brandy |
| 白朗 | Bái lǎng | (N) Bailang (place in Tibet) | |
| 白朗縣 | 白朗县 | Bái lǎng xiàn | Bainang County |
| 白痢 | bái lì | dysentery characterized by white mucous stool; white diarrhea | |
| 白蓮教 | 白莲教 | Bái lián jiào | White Lotus society |
| 白臉 | 白脸 | bái liǎn | white face; face painting in Beijing Opera; etc |
| 白磷 | bái lín | white phosphorus | |
| 白蛉熱 | 白蛉热 | bái líng rè | sandfly fever |
| 白領 | 白领 | bái lǐng | white collar; business person |
| 白令海 | bái lìng hǎi | the Bering Sea | |
| 白榴石 | bái liú shí | leucite | |
| 白瀧村 | 白泷村 | Bái lóng cūn | Shirataki, Hokkaidō |
| 白露 | bái lù | White Dew (15th solar term) | |
| 白鷺 | 白鹭 | bái lù | little egret |
| 白茫茫 | bái máng máng | (of mist, snow, floodwater, etc) a vast expanse of whiteness | |
| 白毛女 | bái máo nǚ | The White Haired Girl | |
| 白煤 | bái méi | anthracite; hard coal; white coal; waterpower | |
| 白眉猴屬 | 白眉猴属 | Bái méi hóu shǔ | White-eyelid mangabey |
| 白米 | bái mǐ | (polished) rice | |
| 白棉紙 | 白棉纸 | bái mián zhǐ | stencil tissue paper |
| 白麵 | 白面 | bái miàn | wheat flour; flour |
| 白麵兒 | 白面儿 | bái miàn er | heroin |
| 白麵書生 | 白面书生 | bái miàn shū shēng | pale-faced scholar |
| 白描 | bái miáo | line drawing in traditional ink and brush style; simple and straightforward style of writing | |
| 白木耳 | bái mù ěr | tremella | |
| 白內障 | 白内障 | bái nèi zhàng | cataract |
| 白鳥哲 | 白鸟哲 | Bái niǎo zhé | Tetsu Shiratori |
| 白砒 | bái pī | white arsenic; arsenic trioxide | |
| 白皮書 | 白皮书 | bái pí shū | white paper; white book |
| 白皮松 | bái pí sōng | lacebark pine | |
| 白旗 | bái qí | white flag | |
| 白巧克力 | bái qiǎo kè lì | white chocolate | |
| 白求恩 | Bái Qiú ēn | Norman Bethune | |
| 白區 | 白区 | bái qū | White Area |
| 白屈菜 | bái qū cài | greater celandine | |
| 白熱 | 白热 | bái rè | white heat; incandescence |
| 白熱化 | 白热化 | bái rè huà | turn white hot |
| 白人 | bái rén | white man and woman | |
| 白刃 | bái rèn | naked sword | |
| 白日做夢 | 白日做梦 | bái rì zuò mèng | day dream; indulge in wishful thinking |
| 白肉 | bái ròu | plain boiled pork | |
| 白薩西里 | 白萨西里 | Bái sà xī lǐ | Basasiri |
| 白色 | bái sè | white (color); White (as a symbol of reaction) | |
| 白色恐怖 | Bái sè kǒng bù | White Terror | |
| 白色人種 | 白色人种 | bái sè rén zhǒng | the white race |
| 白色體 | 白色体 | bái sè tǐ | leucoplast |
| 白色相簿 | Bái sè xiāng bù | White Album | |
| 白色戰劑 | 白色战剂 | bái sè zhàn jì | Agent White |
| 白沙工農區 | 白沙工农区 | Bái shā Gōng nóng qū | (N) Baisha Gongnong area (area in Sichuan) |
| 白沙黎族自治縣 | 白沙黎族自治县 | Bái shā Lí zú zì zhì xiàn | (N) Baisha Lizu autonomous county (county in Hainan) |
| 白沙瓦 | Bái shā wǎ | Peshawar | |
| 白沙灣 | 白沙湾 | Bái shā wān | Hebe Haven |
| 白沙鄉 | 白沙乡 | Bái shā xiāng | (N) Paisha (village in Taiwan) |
| 白山 | Bái shān | (N) Baishan (city in Jilin) | |
| 白芍 | bái sháo | (peeled) root of herbaceous peony (Paeonia Lactiflora) | |
| 白蛇傳 | 白蛇传 | bái shé zhuàn | Tale of the White Snake; Madam White Snake |
| 白手起家 | bái shǒu qǐ jiā | build up from nothing; start from scratch | |
| 白薯 | bái shǔ | sweet potato | |
| 白水 | Bái shuǐ | (N) Baishui (place in Shaanxi) | |
| 白水泥 | bái shuǐ ní | white cement | |
| 白蘇 | 白苏 | bái sū | common perilla |
| 白素貞 | 白素贞 | bái sù zhēn | (name of a person) Bai Suzhen, from Madam White Snake |
| 白糖 | bái táng | (refined) white sugar | |
| 白陶 | bái táo | white pottery (of Shang Dynastry 16-11th century BC) | |
| 白體 | 白体 | bái tǐ | lean type |
| 白天 | bái tiān | daytime; during the day; day | |
| 白鐵 | 白铁 | bái tiě | galvanized iron |
| 白廳 | 白厅 | Bái tīng | Whitehall |
| 白銅 | 白铜 | bái tóng | copper-nickel alloy |
| 白頭 | 白头 | bái tóu | hoary head; old age |
| 白頭翁 | 白头翁 | bái tóu wēng | root of Chinese pulsatilla; Chinese bulbul |
| 白頭諧老 | 白头谐老 | bái tóu xié lǎo | live to ripe old age in conjugal bliss; remain a devoted couple to the end of their lives |
| 白臀葉猴屬 | 白臀叶猴属 | bái tún yè hóu shǔ | douc |
| 白文 | bái wén | the text of an annotated book; an unannotated edition of a book; intagliated characters (on a seal) | |
| 白鎢礦 | 白钨矿 | bái wū kuàng | scheelite |
| 白細胞 | 白细胞 | bái xì bāo | white blood cell; leucocyte |
| 白線蝠屬 | 白线蝠属 | Bái xiàn fú shǔ | Platyrrhinus |
| 白曉燕 | 白晓燕 | Bái Xiǎo yàn | Pai Hsiao-yen (daughter of Pai Ping-ping) |
| 白熊 | bái xióng | polar bear; white bear | |
| 白雪公主 | Bái xuě gōng zhǔ | Snow White | |
| 白血病 | bái xuè bìng | leukemia | |
| 白血球 | bái xuè qiú | white blood cell; leucocyte | |
| 白眼 | bái yǎn | supercilious look | |
| 白眼珠 | bái yǎn zhū | the white of the eye | |
| 白楊 | 白杨 | bái yáng | poplar |
| 白洋澱 | 白洋淀 | Bái yáng diàn | Lake Baiyangdian |
| 白夜 | bái yè | white night | |
| 白衣戰士 | 白衣战士 | bái yī zhàn shì | warrior in white; medical worker |
| 白蟻 | 白蚁 | bái yǐ | termite; white ant |
| 白銀 | 白银 | bái yín | silver |
| 白魚 | 白鱼 | bái yú | whitefish |
| 白玉 | Bái yù | (N) Baiyu (place in Sichuan) | |
| 白云母 | bái yún mǔ | muscovite; white mica | |
| 白雲石 | 白云石 | bái yún shí | dolomite |
| 白紙黑字 | 白纸黑字 | bái zhǐ hēi zì | (written) in black and white |
| 白智英 | Bái zhì yīng | Baek Ji Young | |
| 白種 | 白种 | bái zhǒng | the white race |
| 白晝 | 白昼 | bái zhòu | daytime |
| 白朮 | 白术 | bái zhú | the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes (Atractylodes macrocephaia) |
| 白字 | bái zì | wrongly written and mispronounced character | |
| 白族 | Bái zú | the Bai (Pai) nationality; living in Yunnan | |
| 斑白 | bān bái | grizzled; greying | |
| 半白 | bàn bái | fifty (years of age) | |
| 辯白 | 辩白 | biàn bái | offer an explanation; plead innocence; try to defend oneself |
| 表白 | biǎo bái | vindicate | |
| 博白 | Bó bái | (N) Bobai (place in Guangxi) | |
| 補白 | 补白 | bǔ bái | filler (in a newspaper or magazine) |
| 不白之冤 | bù bái zhī yuān | unrighted wrong; unredressed injustice | |
| 不分青紅皂白 | 不分青红皂白 | bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái | indiscriminately |
| 不明白 | bù míng bái | fails to realize (intuitively) what is going on | |
| 蒼白 | 苍白 | cāng bái | pale; wan |
| 長白朝鮮族自治縣 | 长白朝鲜族自治县 | Cháng bái cháo xiān zú zì zhì xiàn | (N) Changbai Chaoxianzu autonomous county (county in Jilin) |
| 長白山 | 长白山 | Cháng bái shān | Baekdu Mountain |
| 大白菜 | dà bái cài | (n) bok choy (Chinese cabbage) | |
| 蛋白 | dàn bái | egg white; protein; albumen | |
| 蛋白酶 | dàn bái méi | protease | |
| 蛋白石 | dàn bái shí | opal | |
| 蛋白素 | dàn bái sù | albumin | |
| 蛋白質 | 蛋白质 | dàn bái zhí | protein |
| 低脂蛋白血症 | Dī zhī dàn bái xuè zhèng | Hypolipoproteinemia | |
| 電白 | 电白 | Diàn bái | (N) Dianbai (place in Guangdong) |
| 東方白鸛 | 东方白鹳 | Dōng fāng bái guàn | Oriental Stork |
| 高鐵血紅蛋白 | 高铁血红蛋白 | gāo tiě xuè hóng dàn bái | hemoglobin |
| 哥白尼 | gē bái ní | Nicolaus Copernicus | |
| 紅白埃森足球俱樂部 | 红白埃森足球俱乐部 | Hóng bái āi sēn zú qiú Jù lè bù | Rot-Weiss Essen |
| 花白 | huā bái | grizzled (hair) | |
| 灰白 | huī bái | colored; ash-colored | |
| 灰白質 | 灰白质 | huī bái zhí | grey matter |
| 急性骨髓性白血病 | jí xìng gǔ suǐ xìng bái xuè bìng | acute myeloid leukemia | |
| 脊髓灰白質炎病毒 | 脊髓灰白质炎病毒 | jǐ suǐ huī bái zhì yán bìng dú | poliovirus |
| 甲胎蛋白 | jiǎ tāi dàn bái | alpha-fetoprotein | |
| 甲形球蛋白 | jiǎ xíng qiú dàn bái | alpha globulin; alpha fetoprotein (AFP) | |
| 茭白 | jiāo bái | water bamboo | |
| 角蛋白 | jiǎo dàn bái | keratin (protein forming nails and feathers, etc.) | |
| 潔白 | 洁白 | jié bái | spotlessly white; pure white |
| 空白 | kòng bái | blank space | |
| 空白點 | 空白点 | kòng bái diǎn | gap; empty space |
| 藍白 | 蓝白 | Lán bái | GD Lam Pak |
| 李白 | lǐ bái | Li Bai - a famous Tang Dynasty poet |
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