| 白起 |
Bái Qǐ |
Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦国, the victor at 长平 in 260 BC / same as 公孙起 |
| 白 |
Bái |
surname Bai / Bai ethnic group |
| 白 |
bái |
white / in vain / free of charge / (bound form) (of facts, the truth, a situation) clear; evident (e.g. 真相大白) / (bound form) plain; without additions (e.g. 白饭) / (bound form) to explain; to state (e.g. 辩白) / (bound form) to give a disdainful look (e.g. 白了他一眼) / (bound form) vernacular (e.g. 白话) / (bound form) spoken lines in opera (e.g. 念白) / (bound form) reactionary; anti-communist (e.g. 白区) |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |