白bái

Modern simplified form (簡體). 白 (bái, "white") is identical in simplified and traditional — a pictograph of a grain of rice that has remained unchanged for three thousand years, its original shape still recognizable in the modern script. It serves as a radical in characters such as 皓 (bright), 皎 (clear), and 魄 (soul), lending its meaning of whiteness and brightness to many compounds. --- Modern