白斑

báibān
noun #33,899

Measure Word

一块白斑 kuài

Meanings

  1. 1 white patch
  2. 2 white spot (on skin)
  3. 3 vitiligo (medical)

Examples

Tā shǒu shàng yǒu yī kuài báibān.
He has a white patch on his hand.
Yīshēng shuō zhè shì báibān, jiànyì zuò jìnyībù jiǎnchá.
The doctor said it's vitiligo and recommended further tests.

Tips

usage
白斑 covers any pale-colored patch — on skin, on a leaf, on an animal's coat. In a medical context it most often refers to vitiligo (, báidiànfēng), a depigmentation condition. Outside medicine it's just descriptive ('a white blotch').

Stroke Order

bái
bān