白
white
5 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 483.
Readings
- しろい (kun reading): 面白い (おもしろい) interesting; 白い (しろい) white
- ハク (on reading): 告白 (こくはく) confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); 紅白 (こうはく) red and white
- しろ (kun reading): 白 (しろ) white; 白色 (しろいろ) white
- しら (kun reading): 白髪 (しらが) white hair; 白子 (しらこ) soft roe
- ビャク (on reading): 白夜 (びゃくや) night under the midnight sun; 白虎 (びゃっこ) White Tiger (Taoist god said to rule over the western heavens)
- Read as a whole word: 白湯 (さゆ) (plain) hot water; 白粉 (おしろい) white makeup powder; 白楊 (はこやなぎ) Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)
Components
Kanji containing 白
- 的 bull's eye
- 百 hundred
- 楽 music
- 習 learn
- 皇 emperor
- 迫 urge
- 泉 spring
- 泊 overnight stay
- 皆 all
- 拍 clap
- 柏 oak
- 伯 chief
- 舶 liner
- 畠 field
- 粕 scrap
- 兜 helmet
- 狛 archaic part of Korea
- 皐 swamp
- 皓 white
- 碧 blue
- 皀 fragrant
- 皃 countenance
- 岶 dense mountain vegetation
- 帛 cloth
- 怕 fear
- 珀 amber
- 皈 homecoming
- 皋 the high land along a river
- 袙 warrior's headband
- 皎 white
- 皖 Venus
- 皙 clear
- 樂 music
- 皚 white
- 魄 soul
Words using 白
- 面白い (おもしろい) interesting
- 白い (しろい) white
- 青白い (あおじろい) pale
- 真っ白い (まっしろい) pure white
- ほの白い (ほのじろい) dimly white
- 告白 (こくはく) confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.)
- 紅白 (こうはく) red and white
- 白人 (はくじん) white person
- 関白 (かんぱく) chief advisor to the Emperor (adviser)
- 明白 (めいはく) obvious
- 白 (しろ) white
- 白色 (しろいろ) white
- 真っ白 (まっしろ) pure white
- 白黒 (しろくろ) black and white
- 白目 (しろめ) white of the eye
- 白髪 (しらが) white hair
- 白子 (しらこ) soft roe
- 白露 (しらつゆ) glistening dew
- 白雲 (しらくも) white clouds
- 白木 (しらき) plain wood
- 白夜 (びゃくや) night under the midnight sun
- 白虎 (びゃっこ) White Tiger (Taoist god said to rule over the western heavens)
- 白蓮 (びゃくれん) white lotus
- 白蓮教 (びゃくれんきょう) White Lotus Society
- 白檀 (びゃくだん) Indian sandalwood (Santalum album)
- 白湯 (さゆ) (plain) hot water
- 白粉 (おしろい) white makeup powder
- 白楊 (はこやなぎ) Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)
- 白粉中毒 (おしろいちゅうどく) lead poisoning (from old-fashioned white makeup powder)
- 白熊 (はぐま) yak tail hair
- 晩白柚 (ばんぺいゆ) cultivar of pomelo (Citrus maxima, Citrus grandis)
- 白酒 (パイチュウ) baijiu (distilled Chinese alcohol, made from fermented grains)
- 辣白菜 (ラーパーツァイ) hot-and-sour cabbage
- 雲白肉 (ウンパイロー) dish of spicy boiled pork, usu. served with slices of cucumber
- 雲白肉片 (ウンパイローピェン) Sichuan sliced spicy garlic pork
601 words in all.