Chinese symbol for “whiten”
美白
měi bái
to whiten (the skin or teeth)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for whiten is 美白 (měi bái), defined as: to whiten (the skin or teeth).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “whiten”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 美白.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美元 | měi yuán | American dollar; US dollar |
| 美丽 (美麗) | měi lì | beautiful |
| 完美 | wán měi | perfect |
| 美女 | měi nǚ | beautiful woman |
| 美好 | měi hǎo | beautiful; fine |
| 美食 | měi shí | culinary delicacy; fine food |
| 明白 | míng bai | clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable |
| 白色 | bái sè | white; fig. reactionary |
See also: Japanese symbol for “whiten”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.