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Origin | |
Language(s) | Chinese |
Word/name | China Mongolia |
Meaning | White (color) |
Region of origin | China |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Pekasa, Pekerti, Peris (Chinese-Indonesian) |
Bái is the pinyin of the surname 白, meaning the colour white.
Another surname, 柏, means the tree cypress. This one is the 37th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. Since 柏 is a character with two readings, it is often mistakenly read as "Bó". In modern Chinese, the proper way to pronounce it as a surname is "Bǎi".[citation needed]
Bai and other variants were ranked 79th within the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, down from 70th in 1990.