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
- —白板whiteboard; white board
- —白雁snow goose (Chen caerulescens); blue goose
- —白化bleaching; whitening; chlorosis; albinism
- —軟白blanching (of vegetables; by depriving them of light)
- —白鰱silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)
- —謹白yours sincerely; sincerely yours; yours truly
- —白地white cloth; empty land; empty lot; respectable woman (as opposed to a prostitute)
- —白鳳white Chinese phoenix; white Chinese firebird
- —白燐white phosphorus
- —白道moon's path
- —激白candidly revealing (secrets); revelation; disclosure; confession
- —白球white ball (baseball, golf ball, etc.)
- —白度(degree of) whiteness
- —白布white cloth
- —白丁young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training; man with no title and no rank (under the ritsuryō system); commoner; servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master
- —増白brightening
- —白頭head with grey hair (gray); grey head
- —白鷴silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera)
- —白杖white cane (for the blind or visually impaired)
- —白質white matter (e.g. in the brain); substantia alba