Kanji1 / 5
白 kanji
white
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ハクビャク
Kun readings
しろしら-しろい
Words with 白
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1告白Popularconfession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); admission; professing one's feelings (to someone one wants to go out with); declaration of love; profession (of faith); confession (of sins)
- N1白状Popularconfession
- N1蛋白質protein
- —明白Popularobvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit; overt
- —空白Popularblank space (in a document); blank; void; gap; vacuum; whitespace
- —潔白Popularinnocence; guiltlessness; purity; uprightness; integrity
- —紅白Popularred and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors); two teams; two groups; Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)
- —自白Popularconfession; admission
- —白衣Popularwhite clothes; white robe; white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.); commoner without rank (in ancient China); layperson
- —白菜Popularnapa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); nappa cabbage; Chinese cabbage
- —白紙Popularwhite paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch; beginning
- —白書Popularwhite paper (government report)
- —白人Popularwhite person; Caucasian; beginner; amateur; unlicensed prostitute
- —白線Popularwhite line; linea alba
- —白鳥Popularswan (Cygnus spp.); white bird
- —白熱Popularwhite heat; incandescence; (emitting) white light; white glow; becoming excited; getting heated (e.g. of a discussion); reaching a climax
- —白米Popularpolished rice; (uncooked) white rice
- —漂白Popularblanching; bleaching
- —腕白Popularnaughty; mischievous; unruly
- —淡白Popularlight (flavor, color, etc.); simple; plain; frank; candid; easygoing; unselfish; indifferent (to); not particular (about)