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bai

The English word “bai” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
  2. A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s.

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