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大白

dàbái

(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light

02

(old) wine cup

03

(coll.) whiting (used in whitewash)

04

(coll.) (neologism c. 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 大白 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大白 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

真相终於大白。zhēn xiàng zhōng yú dà bái。

At last, the truth became known to us.

真相很快就能大白了。zhēn xiàng hěn kuài jiù néng dà bái le。

The truth will clear soon.

在他的裁判下,真相终於大白。zài tā de cái pàn xià, zhēn xiàng zhōng yú dà bái。

The truth finally came out at his trial.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 大白.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大白.

Directly before

  • 於大白2
  • 能大白1

Directly after

  • 大白了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 大白

What does 大白 mean in Chinese?

大白 (dàbái) means (of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light.

How do you pronounce 大白?

大白 is pronounced dàbái.

Is 大白 an HSK word?

大白 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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