I'm getting more and more gray hair.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
白发
white or gray hair
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
white or gray hair
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 白发 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 白发 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Her hair is streaked with gray.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 白发.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 白发.
Directly before
- 的白发1
- 有白发1
Directly after
- 白发越来越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 白发
What does 白发 mean in Chinese?
白发 (báifà) means white or gray hair.
How do you pronounce 白发?
白发 is pronounced báifà.
Is 白发 an HSK word?
白发 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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