雪白

xuěbái

adjective #26,150

Meanings

1 snow-white
2 pure white
3 as white as snow

Characters

white; pure; blank

Examples

她穿着一件雪白的婚纱，美极了。

Tā chuānzhe yī jiàn xuěbái de hūnshā, měi jíle.

She wore a snow-white wedding dress and looked absolutely beautiful.

冬天，田野铺满了雪白的积雪。

Dōngtiān, tiányě pū mǎn le xuěbái de jīxuě.

In winter, the fields are covered with snow-white drifts.

他的牙齿洁净雪白。

Tā de yáchǐ jiéjìng xuěbái.

His teeth are clean and snow-white.

Tips

memory

雪 (snow) + 白 (white) = snow-white. This is a vivid compound adjective that uses snow as the ultimate standard of whiteness. Many Chinese color descriptions use natural phenomena this way (e.g., 漆黑 pitch-black, 翠绿 emerald-green).

Stroke Order

雪 xuě

白 bái