シラ
Meanings
Prefix
1. white
2. unseasoned; undyed; unaltered
3. very much; precisely
4. playing dumb
Adjective (な)
Noun
5. unfeigned; honest; diligent
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (57 in total)
① サギ科の鳥の中で全身が白いものの総称。
to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out
white feather
① 白い雪
white gem (esp. a pearl); rice flour dumpling; white-flowered camellia
① 白い花が咲く百合。白い百合の花。
disenchantment; apathy; spoiled fun; turn-off
Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)
shirataki noodles; white noodles made from konjak starch, often used in sukiyaki; waterfall resembling a white sheet
to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out
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。
swan (Cygnus spp.); white-feathered bird
Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)
Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto); collared dove
① 白い雲。しろくも。白雲^(はくうん)。
growing light (e.g. at dawn); pale; appearing dumb; talking in an obvious way
① 白砂の浜辺。砂が白く見える浜辺。
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
white flag; truce flag; surrender flag
quercus myrsinifolia; bamboo Leaved Oak; quercus myrsinaefolia
pale cyan; pale azure
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。
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
drawn sword; naked sword
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。
polished rice; (uncooked) white rice
white background; blank
① 味も無く、何も混ざっていない、飲み物としてのお湯。
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
① 波頭が砕けて白く見える波。② 盗賊。
white plaster wall
white sand
albino
① 白く光って見える露
white vegetables or fish simmered without soy sauce
white-coloured skin; vitiligo; leucoderma; leukoderma
white thread
white sail
white tea
seafood grilled without seasoning; unglazed ceramic ware
white clay; white earth; kaolin; mortar
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。
unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water
unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water
salad dressed with tofu, white sesame, and white miso
being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one); know-it-all manner
(arch.) starched white uniform worn by menservants of government officials; something pasted with plain white paper (e.g. umbrella, lantern)
white spot
woman who puts thick white powder on her neck; low class prostitute
flea-bitten gray (horse coat color); flea-bitten grey
Carex alopecuroides var. chlorostachya (species of sedge)
Japanese glass shrimp (Pasiphaea japonica)
collector urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)
light chestnut (horse coat color)
shrill voice; unaccompanied part of the Heike Monogatari chanting; part of an unaccompanied poem (in noh)
steamed unflavoured glutinous rice; mochi rice