baihe

Bai·he
B3A1I1H4E1
/baɪ.hi//baɪ.hə/

noun

A narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between women; yuri.

OriginMandarin 百合 →
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Meanings

baihe1

nounbaihe (uncountable)
  1. ChineseuncountablefictionA narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between women; yuri.
  2. ChineseuncountablefictionRomantic or sexual relationships between women, lesbianism.

Baihe2

proper noun
  1. A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.

    There is a navigable tributary of the Han, the Chiaho (甲河) which joins it at Paihohsien (白河縣) where the Shensi customs barrier for the Han is situated, considerably west of Laohokʻou.

    [(Can we date this quote?), Hsian, Past and Present, sourced from North-China Daily News, →OCLC, page 7, column 2
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    Another time, some youths in the village had gone down the Han River to Gourd Town, Baihe County and on to the city of Xiangyang, and come back with trousers that were tight at the waist and wide at the bottom, which made them seem instantly taller.

    1991, Pingwa Jia, “Touch Paper”, in The Time is Not Yet Ripe, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117

    Between March 4 and April 11 of 1997, 98 migrant workers from Baihe County in Shanxi Province were killed in three different coal mining accidents. According to Baihe County government figures , up to 22,000 rural residents have left home each year for work in the years since 1994.

    2004, William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig, editors, Private and Public Corruption, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265
  2. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.

Origin

baihe · noun

  1. Mandarin百合
  2. Englishbaihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 百合 (bǎihé).

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Baihe · proper noun

  1. Mandarin白河
  2. EnglishBaihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白河 (Báihé).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 白河
  • 白河 (baak⁶ ho⁴)county
Chinese Mandarin 白河
  • 白河 (Báihé)county
Japanese 白河
  • 白河 (Hakuga)county
Korean 바이허
  • 바이허 (Baiheo)county
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APA

baihe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baihe

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“baihe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baihe. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “baihe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baihe.

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