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八大山人 Hermit Bada(1626-1705), famous monk painter of the early Qing Dynasty
八国联军 the allied forces of the Eight Powers
八级工 a top-grade worker
八路军 the Eighth Route Army (led by the Chinese Communist Party during the War of Resistance Against Japan)
八面光 worldly sophisticated (derog.)
八旗弟子 descendants of the privileged families under the Banner System in the Qing Dynasty / profligate childeren of privileged families)
八仙 the Eight Immortals
八字脚 splayfoot
芭蕾舞星 ballerina
拔贡 title given to selected candidates from counties and prefectures
拔贡生 designation of students sent from Confucian school throught the empire every 12th year for admission to the National University Academy
把风者 front (outside) man / front job
把头 labor contractor / gangmaster
把兄弟 sworn brothers
靶场工作人员（射击）range official
靶壕裁判员（射击）target controller
罢工纠察队 picket
罢吏 official dismissed from office
霸王 conqueror (assumed title of Xiang Yu), a great warrior who contested the throne with the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty and soon lost / chief of feudal princes / overlord / despot
霸主 a powerful chief of the princes during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.) / overlord / hegemon
白鼻子 sly person
白丁 common people / common man / populace
白骨精 White Bone Demon (a mythical character in the classical Chinese novel "Pilgrimage to the West" / devious cunning female)
白虎星 Jinx
白客 innocent person / person not involved in a crime
白马王子 prince charming / Mister
白毛女 White-Haired Girl (main character of the popular modern Chinese opera "The White-Haired Girl")
白面郎 son of a rich family / son of a noble family
白面书生 an inexperienced young scholar refined in manner / greenhorn
白娘子 Bai Shzhen (snake fairy in traditional Chinese tale)
白人中坚分子 the white elite
白日鬼 cheater / trickster
白身 commoner (an ordinary person with no official status)
白食者 a sponge / sponger
白铁匠 tinsmith
白相人 loafer
白衣天使 angel in white (fig. nurse in hospital)
白衣秀士 untitled scholar
白衣战士 warrior in white (fig. medical worker)
白专学生 academically bright students
百货公司管理员 floor wallker
百货店的巡视员 shop walker
百岁老人 centenarian
摆脱了车群的运动员（自行车）breakaway rider
拜把兄弟 sworn brothers / buddies
拜把子 sworn brothers
稗官 low-ranking official
班禅 Panchen Lama
班禅喇嘛 Panchen Lama
班长 squad leader / class presdent
班主任 teacher in charge of a class / a teacher who is in charge of ideological work, study and life of the students of a class in a school / form master
搬弄是非者 tattletale
搬迁户 households having to move / relocated household
半边人 widow / widower
半边天 half the sky (fig. the tremendous role played by new China's women in the socialist revolution) / a general term for women of new China
半吊子 a careless, weakwilled person / half-bake man
半丁 young lad (under the age of 17 in old China)
半公费生 demy
半老徐娘 an elderly woman who has partly lost her good looks / middle-aged woman
半瓶醋 dabbler
半仙 fortune-teller / medical quack (who claims to have the ability to work wonder as immortals are supposed to)
半子 son-in-law
帮办 sub-oficer
榜眼 bangyan, the one who won the second place in the highest Imperial Examination / the second best examinee in the Palace Examination
（to be continued)
