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白 kanji
white
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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ハクビャク
Kun readings
しろしら-しろい
Words with 白
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —白色矮星white dwarf
- —白刃一閃(with) a flash of a drawn sword; brandishing a sword
- —白鳳時代Hakuhō period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 645-710 CE)
- —白色テロwhite terror
- —白色雑音white noise
- —燐蛋白質phosphoprotein
- —白紙状態blank slate; tabula rasa
- —白化現象albinism; chlorosis; bleaching (of coral)
- —空白期間blank period; window period; interregnum
- —空白時間idle time; down time; window period
- —太白砂糖refined sugar
- —名誉白人honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites
- —白色瞳孔leukocoria; leukokoria; amaurotic cat's eye
- —白ロシアBelarus; Belorussia; White Russia
- —自然白金native platinum
- —水白鉛鉱hydrocerussite
- —白骨死体skeletal remains; dry bones of a corpse; human skeleton
- —白系露人White Russian emigre; White Russian exile
- —白扇潮招milky fiddler crab (Austruca lactea)
- —白山三峰Three Peaks of Mount Haku (Gozengamine, Kengamine, Oonanjimine)