しら
Meanings
Prefix
1. white
2. unseasoned; undyed; unaltered
3. very much; precisely
4. playing dumb
Adjective (な)
Noun
5. unfeigned; honest; diligent
Pitch accent
Top 17100
Used in vocabulary (60 in total)
to be dampened (of the mood, interest, etc.); to be spoiled (e.g. of the atmosphere); to become subdued; to turn white; to fade (to white); to grow light (at dawn)
to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out
white vegetables or fish simmered without soy sauce
shirataki noodles; white noodles made from konjak starch, often used in sukiyaki; waterfall resembling a white sheet
① 白い雪
① 波頭が砕けて白く見える波。② 盗賊。
Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)
swan (Cygnus spp.); white-feathered bird
white gem (esp. a pearl); rice flour dumpling; white-flowered camellia
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
① 白砂の浜辺。砂が白く見える浜辺。
① サギ科の鳥の中で全身が白いものの総称。
white flag; truce flag; surrender flag
growing light (e.g. at dawn); pale; appearing dumb; talking in an obvious way
to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out
white sail
① 白く光って見える露
① 白い花の梅。白い花を咲かせる梅。② 白い梅の花。③ 襲の色目の名で表は白、裏は紅。うらうめ。ひとえうめ。
white feather
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
white plaster wall; tofu; bean curd
① 白い花が咲く百合。白い百合の花。
white sandbar; white sandbank; area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles; gravel separating a noh stage from the audience; (arch.) court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
disenchantment; apathy; spoiled fun; turn-off
unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water
salad dressed with tofu, white sesame, and white miso
(arch.) starched white uniform worn by menservants of government officials; something pasted with plain white paper (e.g. umbrella, lantern)
① 玄米を搗いて白くする。精米する。② 磨いて仕上げる。
seafood grilled without seasoning; unglazed ceramic ware
① 白い花が咲く萩。② ぬまとらのおの別称。③ マメ科ハギ属に属するにしきはぎの白色品種。
being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one); know-it-all manner
soft roe; milt; albino
light brown; white tea
quercus myrsinifolia; bamboo Leaved Oak; quercus myrsinaefolia
unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water
white thread
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
① 白くなった髪。髪全体または1本1本の毛を指す。
drawn sword; naked sword
① 白い雲。しろくも。白雲^(はくうん)。
polished rice; (uncooked) white rice
white background; blank; female virgin
① 味も無く、何も混ざっていない、飲み物としてのお湯。
Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)
white sand
① キュウリウオ目シラウオ科に属する魚類の総称。鮨や酢の物にしたり、踊り食いしたりして賞味する。江戸・佃島の漁師が篝火をたいて獲り、将軍家へ献上した。
white-coloured skin; vitiligo; leucoderma; leukoderma
white clay; white earth; kaolin; mortar
white spot
woman who puts thick white powder on her neck; low class prostitute
flea-bitten gray (horse coat color); flea-bitten grey
pale cyan; pale azure
Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto); collared dove
Carex alopecuroides var. chlorostachya (species of sedge)
light chestnut (horse coat color)
shrill voice; unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting; part of an unaccompanied poem (in noh)
Japanese glass shrimp (Pasiphaea japonica)
steamed unflavoured glutinous rice; mochi rice
collector urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)
Shirasawa Station (Kagoshima)