White in Chinese
white · HSK 2
白色
- 白 white
- 色 color
她穿着一件白色的裙子。 She is wearing a white dress.
Other ways to say white
More words with 白 or 色
How do you say white in Chinese?
White in Chinese is 白色 (bái sè). You can also say 白 (bái).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.