梅花白

méihuābái

adjective

Meanings

1 salt-and-pepper gray; flecked with white (of hair)
2 gray like plum blossoms on a branch

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

爷爷胡子梅花白，可精神还好得很。

Yéye húzi méihuābái, kě jīngshén hái hǎo de hěn.

Grandpa's beard is gray-flecked, but his spirits are still great.

HSK 7-9

他两鬓已经梅花白了。

Tā liǎng bìn yǐjīng méihuābái le.

The hair at his temples has already turned salt-and-pepper.

Tips

memory

Imagine a plum tree in winter: dark branches dusted with white blossoms. The same pattern of dark-with-white-specks is what 梅花白 captures for graying hair or beard.

Stroke Order

梅 méi

花 huā

白 bái