表白

Chinese

		surface; exterior; to watch surface; exterior; to watch; to show; express; an example; a list or table; a meter; a watch; chart; external	white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
simp. and trad. (表白)		表	白

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biǎobái

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠˇ ㄅㄞˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): biu² baak⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): piáu-pia̍k / piáu-pe̍k / piáu-pe̍h / piáu-pe̍eh / piáu-piě

(Teochew, Peng'im): biou² bêh⁸ / biao² bêh⁸

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biǎobái
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠˇ ㄅㄞˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biǎobái
  - Wade–Giles: piao³-pai²
  - Yale: byǎu-bái
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beaubair
  - Palladius: бяобай (bjaobaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ paɪ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: biu² baak⁶
  - Yale: bíu baahk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: biu² baak⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: biu² bag⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːu̯³⁵ paːk̚²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piáu-pia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: piáu-pia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piaw'piak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /piau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ piak̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piáu-pe̍k
  - Tâi-lô: piáu-pi̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piaw'pek
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /piau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ piɪk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /piau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ piɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /piau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ piɪk̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piáu-pe̍h
  - Tâi-lô: piáu-pe̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piaw'peh
  - IPA (Xiamen): /piau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ peʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piáu-pe̍eh
  - Tâi-lô: piáu-pe̍eh
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /piau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pɛʔ¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Longyan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piáu-piě
  - Tâi-lô: piáu-piě
  - IPA (Longyan): /piau²¹ pie⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: biou² bêh⁸ / biao² bêh⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pióu pe̍h / piáu pe̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piou⁵²⁻³⁵ peʔ⁴/, /piau⁵²⁻³⁵ peʔ⁴/

Verb

表白

to express or state clearly; to explain; to clarify; to explain oneself
(specifically) to reveal or confess the true state of one's thoughts or feelings, especially one's love for another person
被表白 ― bèi biǎobái ― to be confessed to
(literary) to come clean

References

郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “表白”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 260.