しろ
Meanings
Noun
1. substitution
2. material
3. price
4. margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something
5. shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; approx. 19.83 m.sq.)
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (27 in total)
article; goods; fine thing; fellow; (arch.) prostitute; (arch.) price
paper, cloth, wood, etc. representation of a sacred object; paper doll used in purification rites
overlap width; margin for pasting together (e.g. two pieces of paper); elbowroom; leeway; room
room for growth; potential; promise
Iwashiro (former province located in the west of present-day Fukushima Prefecture)
something worshiped as a symbol for the spirit of the dead
curtain separating a central room from the aisles around it (in palatial-style architecture)
snow water; melt water
rice nursery; bed for rice seedlings
room for growth; potential; promise
food expenses
portion; one's share
snow water; melt water
preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil
tax paid to avoid forced labor (ritsuryo period); tax in kind
drink money; drinking money
margin for a seam; seam allowance
shaved part of the forehead
interference; jamming
grinding allowance
dividing up a fishing catch
interference; jamming
cutting stock (extra material cut off in machining operations as a safety margin for tolerances); machining allowance
taccad (any plant of family Taccaceae)
Ophidion asiro (species of cusk eel)
Tashiro Dam