CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

白人

báirén

white man or woman; Caucasian

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

white man or woman; Caucasian

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 白人 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 白人 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

嫌疑人是一位白人女性。xián yí rén shì yī wèi bái rén nǚ xìng。

The suspect is a caucasian female.

在这个城市，白人和黑人间的争端愈演愈烈。zài zhè ge chéng shì， bái rén hé hēi rén jiān de zhēng duān yù yǎn yù liè。

The conflict between blacks and whites in the city became worse.

这是个由不分老少、贫富、民主党、共和党；黑人、白人、拉丁裔、亚裔、美洲原住民；同性恋、异性恋人；肢障与四体健全者，大家共同诉说的答案。美国民众向全世界发出讯息，我们绝非一盘散沙，也不是由红州、蓝州拼凑而成的集合体。zhè shì gè yóu bù fēn lǎo shào、 pín fù、 mín zhǔ dǎng、 gòng hé dǎng； hēi rén、 bái rén、 lā dīng yì、 yà yì、 měi zhōu yuán zhù mín； tóng xìng liàn、 yì xìng liàn rén； zhī zhàng yǔ sì tǐ jiàn quán zhě， dà jiā gòng tóng sù shuō de dá àn。 měi guó mín zhòng xiàng quán shì jiè fā chū xùn xī， wǒ men jué fēi yī pán sǎn shā， yě bú shì yóu hóng zhōu、 lán zhōu pīn còu ér chéng de jí hé tǐ。

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 白人.

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

Directly before

一位白人1
的白人1
个白人1

Directly after

白人和1
白人女性1
白人邻居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 白人

What does 白人 mean in Chinese?

白人 (báirén) means white man or woman; Caucasian.

How do you pronounce 白人?

白人 is pronounced báirén.

Is 白人 an HSK word?

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

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