Kanji
Readingはく
Frequency24%
Used in (267 in total)
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
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
cloudiness; turbidity; nebula (medical)
blank space (in documents); vacuum; blank; void
pale; pallid
swan (Cygnus spp.); white-feathered bird
confession; acknowledgement; acknowledgment
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
white; striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus); speech; one's lines; white dragon tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles; (arch.) white person
white person; Caucasian; (arch.) beginner; (arch.) amateur; (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
drawn sword; naked sword
monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
white smoke
night under the midnight sun; white night (at extreme latitudes); night during which the sun doesn't set
white whale; Moby Dick
white heat; incandescence; 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
white clouds
chalk (mineral); white wall
rain shower
heron with all-white plumage (incl. egrets); white heron
polished rice; (uncooked) white rice
one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face
white porcelain
hand-to-hand combat
daydream; waking dream
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
daytime; midday
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); nappa cabbage; Chinese cabbage
white plaster wall; tofu; bean curd
white line; linea alba (anot.)
(plain) hot water; boiled water
blank space; margin; blank canvas
bright sunshine; broad daylight
idiot; retard; idiocy; profound mental retardation
white cloth
bright white (esp. for snow and ice); brilliant white
white (complexion); fair-skinned
openly (unashamedly) in broad daylight
knight on a white horse; Prince Charming
to wipe the slate clean; to start anew
blanching; bleaching
white of the eye; cold, unwelcoming eyes
black and white; right and wrong
unsheathed sword
fair complexion; face without makeup; inexperience
cooked white rice
truth serum; truth drug
white cane (for the blind or visually impaired)
bai ze (mythical Chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)
to bring to light; to expose (to the world)
blackboard chalk
white ball (baseball, golf ball, etc.)
white beard
white peach
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
moon's path
Cretaceous Period
contest between two groups; intra-squad game
nurse; (lit.) angel in white
white paper
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
milky white; lactescent
blank period; window period; interregnum
bleaching; whitening; chlorosis; albinism
white charcoal; charcoal used for tea ceremony
expression; confession
Cygnus (constellation); the Swan
incandescent lamp
head with grey hair (gray); grey head
glistening dew; "white dew" solar term (approx. September 8)
light bulb; incandescent light bulb
daydream; waking dream; fantasy
bleaching agent; bleach
outline map; blank map; base map
(plain) white fan
gray; grey; griseous
white knight; knight in shining armor
complete revocation; total retraction
Japanese aspen (Populus tremula var. sieboldii)
white clay; white earth; kaolin; mortar
nickel and copper alloy
Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)
white elephant
leucism; pigmentation loss
Trichophyton fungus (dermatophyte that causes ringworm, etc.)
Venus (planet); thick silk thread; refined sugar; white rice jelly; variety of sweet potato
whiteboard; white board
refining; polishing (of rice)
yellowish-white; pale yellow
blank slate; tabula rasa
being cleared of all the charge (brought against one); being found completely innocent
candidly revealing (secrets); revelation; disclosure; confession
blank power of attorney; carte blanche
yellow and white; gold and silver; bribery; corruption
idle time; down time; window period
carte blanche; blank check; blank cheque; unconditional authority
white magnolia; Magnolia denudata
(theatrical) aside
Yours Sincerely
blank ballot; white ballot
white spot; bright spot; facula; vitiligo; leukoderma
openly and in broad daylight
PS; postscript
white supremacy; white supremacism
Aries (1st zodiacal sign); the Ram
pewter; solder
Hakuho period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 645-710 CE)
unpunctuated Chinese texts
first-class rice
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
gray matter; grey matter
ringworm; tinea
(with) a flash of a drawn sword; brandishing a sword
heated; white-hot; zealous; fervid
albinism; chlorosis; bleaching (of coral)
tripe; cow rumen; white flesh (of fruit)
white matter (e.g. in the brain); substantia alba
white sugar
white phosphorus
facts being beyond dispute; logic being indisputable
Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)
white cloth; empty land; empty lot; (arch.) respectable woman (as opposed to a prostitute)
beautiful stretch of sandy beach dotted with pine trees; (lit.) white sand, green pines
99th birthday
contest between two groups; intra-squad game
bimbo; airhead beauty
colloquial Chinese
polished rice; uncooked white rice
simple scripted play (without music, dance, etc.)
novel written in colloquial Chinese
ich (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis) infection; white spot (protozoan infection of freshwater fish)
bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
White Australia Policy (pre-1965 Australian immigration policy)
The White House
snow goose (Chen caerulescens); blue goose
Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth; flag of the Republic of China
sudden rain shower in a dust storm
sophistry; sophism; false syllogism
muscovite; white mica; talc
kaolin; potter's clay
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
vacant constituency
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. freelancer unable to find work); fear of not having anything planned
white dragon tile
Raynaud's disease; white finger disease
Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style)
celestial tower of dead poets, artists, etc.
onychomycosis; tinea unguium
cerussite; white lead ore
German silver; nickel silver
snow-covered rice paddy; field
(degree of) whiteness
transformation of the population of Japan into idiots (because of television)
leukorrhoea; leucorrhoea; leukorrhea; leucorrhea; mucous discharge from female genitals
white space delimiter
titanium white
white diamond shape; white diamond signal shape (marine safety context)
strategy of close-quarters fighting
white phosphorus shell
brightening
Store owner, at your service; Yours truly, the Store Owner
leukocoria; leukokoria; amaurotic cat's eye
marginal notes; glosses
degree of milling (of rice)
being returned (sent back) to the drawing board
poem by Bai Juyi
fragrant styrax; styrax obassia
old people; becoming gray haired (grey)
white pig iron
Japanese leek bulb (a traditional medicine)
fluorescent whitening agent; fluorescent brightener; fluorescent bleach
red and white reversible cap
snowrose (Serissa japonica); tree of a thousand stars; Japanese boxthorn
tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax
silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)
masked palm civet (Paguma larvata); gem-faced civet
whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus)
black-backed wagtail (Motacilla alba lugens)
Hakusan rhododendron (Rhododendron metternichii var.)
mute swan (Cygnus olor)
mulberry root bark (Morus alba)
young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training; man with no title and no rank (under the ritsuryo system); commoner; servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master
humble greeting at the beginning of a letter
Hakushima Station