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Chinese
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white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous |
head; chief; first (occasion) head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems |
simp. and trad.
(白首)
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白
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首
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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白
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首
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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bái
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shǒu
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ bæk ›
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‹ syuwX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*bˁrak/
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/*l̥uʔ/
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| English
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white
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head
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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白
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首
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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| No.
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207
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11671
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Phonetic
component
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白
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首
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Rime
group
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鐸
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幽
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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白
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首
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Old
Chinese
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/*braːɡ/
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/*hljuʔ/
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Noun
白首
- (literary) white hair
- (literary) old age
- (literary) old people
Derived terms
Verb
白首
- (literary, of a couple) to live together until the white hairs of old age; to grow old together
妾與君無媒妁之言，父母之命，逾牆鑽隙，何能白首？ [Literary Chinese, trad.]
妾与君无媒妁之言，父母之命，逾墙钻隙，何能白首？ [Literary Chinese, simp.]- From: 1740 CE, Pu Songling, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
- Qiè yǔ jūn wú méishuòzhīyán, fùmǔzhīmìng, yúqiángzuānxì, hé néng báishǒu?
- You and I are meeting secretly without the words of a matchmaker and the commands of our parents. How can we live together until our hairs turn grey?
寧願能白首 還是罷手 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
宁愿能白首 还是罢手 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]- From: 2019, 林家謙 [Terence Lam], 下一位前度
- ning4 jyun6 nang4 baak6 sau2, waan4 si6 baa6 sau2
- Would I rather be able to grow old together or let go?
Japanese
Etymology 1
Noun
白首 • (hakushu)
- white hair
- old people
Etymology 2
Noun
白首 • (shirokubi)
- (historical) a low class unlicensed prostitute who paints the nape of her neck with white powder
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:娼婦
Etymology 3
Noun
白首 • (shirakubi)
- Synonym of 白首 (shirokubi, “low class unlicensed prostitute”)