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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 白纸黑字

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
白纸黑字 bái zhǐ hēi zì - (written) in black and white

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 20,742 48,347 40,349

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
bái- surname Bai
bái- white
- snowy
- pure
- bright
- empty
- blank
- plain
- clear
- to make clear
- in vain
- gratuitous
- free of charge
- reactionary
- anti-communist
- funeral
- to stare coldly
- to write wrong character
- to state
- to explain
- vernacular
- spoken lines in opera
zhǐ- variant of 紙|纸[zhi3]
zhǐ- paper (CL:張|张[zhang1],沓[da2])
- classifier for documents, letters etc
hēi- abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
hēi- black
- dark
- sinister
- secret
- shady
- illegal
- to hide (sth) away
- to vilify
- (loanword) to hack (computing)
- letter
- symbol
- character
- word
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

Other Words Containing 白纸黑字

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
白纸黑字 - - 20,742 48,347 40,349