白脸

白臉
báiliǎn
  1. white face
  2. face painting in Beijing opera etc

CEDICT

  1. (literally) white face
  2. white face
  3. white face (face painting in Beijing opera, etc., traditionally for the villain)

Wiktionary

  1. 国剧脚色中，白面人物多扮演奸臣，后遂以此泛指一般奸诈的小人。
  2. 对立两者中和善的一方。

重編國語辭典

  1. 和善的人
  2. 苍白的面孔

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 白 bái
  1. white
  2. snowy
  3. pure
  4. bright
  5. empty
  6. blank
  7. plain
  8. clear
  9. to make clear
  10. in vain
  11. gratuitous
  12. free of charge
  13. reactionary
  14. anti-communist
  15. funeral
  16. to stare coldly
  17. to write wrong character
  18. to state
  19. to explain
  20. vernacular
  21. spoken lines in opera
2 脸 liǎn face

classifiers: 張, 個

Containing this entry

唱白脸 chàngbáiliǎn to play the role of the villain (idiom)
急赤白脸 jíchìbáiliǎn
  1. to worry oneself sick
  2. to fret
白脸䴓 báiliǎnshī (bird species of China) Przevalski's nuthatch (Sitta przewalskii)
白脸鹭 báiliǎnlù (bird species of China) white-faced heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)