白
bái
I s.v.
1) white
2) clear
II b.f.
1) pure; plain (白饭)
2) free of charge (白送)
3) wrongly written/mispronounced (白字)
4) colloquial; vernacular (白话)
5) state (表白)
6) “white” (anticommunist) (白区)
III adv.
in vain; for nothing
IV n.
1) spoken part in opera
2) Surname
V v.
1) turn white prematurely
他头发全白了。 His hair turned completely white.
2) coll. look askance at