confession (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)
silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow
obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
white clothes; white robe; white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.); commoner without rank (in ancient China); layperson
white hair; grey hair; gray hair
blank space (in a document); blank; void; whitespace
cloudiness; turbidity; nebula (medical); semen; sperm
night under the midnight sun; white night (at extreme latitudes); night during which the sun doesn't set
swan (Cygnus spp.); white bird
white; striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus); (spoken) line (in a play, film, etc.); one's lines; white dragon tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles; Belgium
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
white person; Caucasian; (arch.) beginner; (arch.) amateur; (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
white heat; incandescence; (emitting) white light; becoming excited; getting heated (e.g. of a discussion); reaching a climax
white horse; unrefined sake
white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum
polished rice; (uncooked) white rice
one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face
heron with all-white plumage (incl. egrets); white heron
hand-to-hand combat; fighting at close quarters; close combat
red 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)
albino Japanese rat snake
heavy snowfall; white devil
napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); nappa cabbage; Chinese cabbage
white plaster wall; tofu; bean curd
blank space; margin; blank canvas
(plain) hot water; boiled water
bright white (esp. for snow and ice); brilliant white
white (complexion); fair-skinned
idiot; idiocy; profound mental retardation
openly (unashamedly) in broad daylight
bright sunshine; broad daylight
prince on a white horse; knight on a white horse; Prince Charming
to wipe the slate clean; to start anew
white of the eye; cold, unwelcoming eyes
black and white; right and wrong
pale; pallid; inexperienced; immature; face without makeup
white cane (for the blind or visually impaired)
to bring to light; to expose (to the world)
bai ze (mythical Chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)
white ball (baseball, golf ball, etc.)
white Chinese phoenix; white Chinese firebird
clearly evident; quite obvious; as clear as day; beyond any doubt; strikingly apparent
grayish white; greyish white
looking coldly on; looking upon disapprovingly; frowning on
autumn (from the five elements in Chinese philosophy)
nurse; (lit.) angel in white
contest between two groups; intra-squad game
white paper (government report)
beautifully white (esp. of skin); whitening (of skin, teeth, etc.)
White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)
finest example; the best (of); white eyebrows
blank period; window period; interregnum
bleaching; whitening; chlorosis; albinism
white charcoal; charcoal used for tea ceremony
Cygnus (constellation); the Swan
expression; confession; utterance
light bulb; incandescent light bulb
glistening dew; "white dew" solar term (approx. September 8)
head with grey hair (gray); grey head
daydream; waking dream; fantasy
white knight; knight in shining armor
outline map; blank map; base map
complete revocation; total retraction
Confessions of a Mask (1949 novel by Yukio Mishima)
Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)
nickel and copper alloy; cupronickel; nickel coin
white clay; white earth; kaolin; mortar
Venus (planet); thick silk thread; refined sugar; white rice jelly; variety of sweet potato
Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual singing contest between famous male and female singers on New Year's Eve; sponsored and broadcast by NHK
Trichophyton fungus (dermatophyte that causes ringworm, etc.)
leucism; pigmentation loss
refining; polishing (of rice)
yellowish-white; pale yellow
candidly revealing (secrets); revelation; disclosure; confession
clear weather; being cleared of the charge (brought against one); having one's innocence proved; having a clear conscience; having nothing to be ashamed of
blank power of attorney; carte blanche
idle time; down time; window period
white sash; white belt; leukorrhoea
yellow and white; gold and silver; bribery; corruption
white magnolia (Magnolia denudata); lilytree; Yulan magnolia
yours sincerely; sincerely yours; yours truly
carte blanche; blank check; blank cheque; unconditional authority
clear; evident; obvious; white
blank ballot; white ballot
white spot; bright spot; facula; vitiligo; leukoderma
openly and in broad daylight
Aries (1st zodiacal sign); the Ram
white supremacy; white supremacism
space character; whitespace character; blank character
white deep-fried kamaboko
Hakuhō period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 645-710 CE)
unpunctuated Chinese texts
(with) a flash of a drawn sword; brandishing a sword
Hakuchi era (650.2.15-654.10.?)
honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites
albinism; chlorosis; bleaching (of coral)
white cloth; empty land; empty lot; (arch.) respectable woman (as opposed to a prostitute)
heated; white-hot; zealous; fervid
Belarus; Belorussia; White Russia
tripe; cow rumen; white flesh (of fruit)
white matter (e.g. in the brain); substantia alba
facts being beyond dispute; logic being indisputable
Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)
contest between two groups; practice game with one team divided into two groups; intra-squad game
white sands and green pines; beautiful coastal scenery
vitiligo; vitiligo vulgaris
polished rice; uncooked white rice
novel written in colloquial Chinese
ich (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis) infection; white spot (protozoan infection of freshwater fish)
simple scripted play (without music, dance, etc.)
bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white); (lit.) three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)
sudden rain shower in a dust storm
actions and words (of an actor); one's lines
White Australia Policy (pre-1966 Australian immigration policy)
red and white sash; red and white belt
snow goose (Chen caerulescens); blue goose
Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth (flag of the Republic of China)
sophistry; sophism; false syllogism
muscovite; white mica; talc
senile cataract; age-related cataract
being proven guilty of a crime; having one's guilt for a crime made clear; (the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear
to wipe the slate clean; to start anew
windflower; anemone; white-haired old man; grey starling (gray)
athlete's foot; foot ringworm; tinea pedis
White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)
fear of having blank days (e.g. for a freelancer); fear of not having anything planned
Raynaud's disease; white finger disease
very truly yours; very respectfully yours
celestial tower where poets, artists, etc. were said to go in the afterlife
tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax
onychomycosis; tinea unguium
cerussite; white lead ore
Hakurei (one of the eight major professional female titles of shogi)
narcissus anemone (Anemone narcissiflora); narcissus-flowered anemone
snow-covered rice paddy; field
white person complex; admiration for the appearance and lifestyle of the people in Europe, the US, etc.
transformation of the population of Japan into idiots (because of television)
lobotomy; leucotomy; frontal lobotomy; frontal leucotomy
leukorrhoea; leucorrhoea; leukorrhea; leucorrhea; mucous discharge from female genitals
ringworm (of the scalp); tinea capitis
white diamond shape; white diamond signal shape (marine safety context)
AWGN; additive white gaussian noise
bleaching and fixing solution
strategy of close-quarters fighting
Three Peaks of Mount Haku (Gozengamine, Kengamine, Oonanjimine)
cretification; cretifaction chalking
Store owner, at your service; Yours truly, the Store Owner
leukocoria; leukokoria; amaurotic cat's eye
degree of milling (of rice)
The Legend of the Moby Dick (television series)
being returned (sent back) to the drawing board
White Paper Revolution (2022 COVID-19 protests in China); A4 Revolution
Confessiones (St. Augustine of Hippo); Les Confessions (Rousseau)
fragrant styrax (Styrax obassia)
German silver; nickel silver
The Idiot (1868 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
old people; becoming gray haired (grey)
Hakutsuru (brand of sake)
Moby-Dick (1851 novel by Herman Melville)
dried Chinese onion bulb (used in traditional Chinese medicine)
periventricular leukomalacia (leucomalacia)
fluorescent whitening agent; fluorescent brightener; fluorescent bleach
red and white reversible cap
adrenoleukodystrophy; ALD
masked palm civet (Paguma larvata); gem-faced civet
snowrose (Serissa japonica); tree of a thousand stars; Japanese boxthorn
silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)
black-backed wagtail (Motacilla alba lugens)
whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus)
tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus); Bewick's swan; whistling swan
Hakusan rhododendron (Rhododendron metternichii var.)
mulberry root bark (Morus alba)
milky fiddler crab (Austruca lactea)
to die (of a poet, artist, etc.)
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
humble greeting at the beginning of a letter