明白 (míng bai): meaning and stroke order
明白 (míng bai) means clear; obvious; unequivocal, sensible; reasonable, to understand; to realize.
明白
- Simplified
- 明白
- Traditional
- 明白 (same form)
- Pinyin
- míng bai
Audio preview uses your device’s Chinese voice. It is not a recording.
Stroke order of 明白
明
- Míng Ming Dynasty (1368–1644); surname Ming
- míng bright; opposite: dark 暗[an4]
- 8 strokes
Stroke by stroke
白
- Bái surname Bai
- bái white; snowy
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
Practise the whole word
Write each character in its box. A hint appears after a few wrong strokes.
Meaning of 明白
-
míng bai
- clear; obvious; unequivocal
- sensible; reasonable
- to understand; to realize
Radicals of the characters
- 明
- Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 8 strokes · 日 on the left, 月 on the right
- 白
- Radical 白 (Kangxi radical 106) · 5 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
明白 in our stories
Preview version — Chinese review in progress.
-
陆远不相信有鬼，决定自己去看个明白。
Lù Yuǎn bù xiāngxìn yǒu guǐ juédìng zìjǐ qù kàn gè míngbai
Lu Yuan didn't believe in ghosts and decided to go and find out for himself.
From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4
-
这回他终于明白了，马上把羊圈修好，以后再也没丢过羊。
zhè huí tā zhōngyú míngbai le mǎshàng bǎ yángjuàn xiū hǎo yǐhòu zài yě méi diū guò yáng
This time he finally understood, mended the fold at once, and never lost a sheep again.
From the story Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5
-
她渐渐明白，挪威人的“冷”，其实是一种对别人空间的尊重；而一旦走近，他们的热情一点儿也不少。
tā jiànjiàn míngbai Nuówēi rén de lěng qíshí shì yì zhǒng duì biérén kōngjiān de zūnzhòng ér yídàn zǒujìn tāmen de rèqíng yìdiǎnr yě bù shǎo
She gradually understood that Norwegians' "coldness" was really a kind of respect for other people's space, and that once you got close, their warmth was not one bit less.
From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 明白
- The piano at midnight HSK 4
- Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5
- Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).