| 37 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 53 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 65 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 266 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3095 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 79 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 73 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 216 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.2 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 205 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 205 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 44 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1362 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4305 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2175 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2929 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 37 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 22678 | Morohashi |
| 3493 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3863 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 37 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 37 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 242 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 46 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
白
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
483 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 白 【ハク】 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 person, Caucasian
- 白衣 【ハクイ】 white clothes, white robe, white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.), commoner without rank (in ancient China), layperson
- 美白 【ビハク】 beautifully white (esp. of skin), whitening (of skin, teeth, etc.)
- 漂白 【ヒョウハク】 blanching, bleaching
- 白衣 【ハクイ】 white clothes, white robe, white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.), commoner without rank (in ancient China), layperson
- 白夜 【ビャクヤ】 night under the midnight sun, white night (at extreme latitudes), night during which the sun doesn't set
- 敬白 【ケイハク】 yours sincerely, sincerely yours, yours truly
- 恐惶敬白 【キョウコウケイハク】 very truly yours, very respectfully yours
Kun reading compounds
- 白 【しろ】 white, innocence, innocent person, blank space, white stone, white dragon tile, skewered grilled pig intestine
- 白い 【しろい】 white
- 面白 【おもしろ】 amusing, funny, interesting
- 蘿蔔 【すずしろ】 daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
- 白い 【しろい】 white
- 白色 【しろいろ】 white
Readings
- Japanese names:
- あき、 か、 はっ
- Korean:
- baeg, bae
Spanish
- blanco
Portuguese
- branco
French
- blanc
| 878 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4c1.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-5-2 | SKIP code |
| 2600.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-39-82 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 767d | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1414 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 塗料 【トリョウ】 paints, painting material
- 塗装 【トソウ】 coating, painting
- 道途 【ドウト】 road
- 糊塗 【コト】 patching up (e.g. a failure), covering up (e.g. a mistake), glossing over
Kun reading compounds
- 塗る 【ぬる】 to paint, to plaster, to lacquer, to varnish, to spread, to smear, to put up (wallpaper)
- 塗り 【ぬり】 coating (esp. lacquering)
- 塗り替える 【ぬりかえる】 to repaint, to paint again, to paint (a different colour), to change completely, to break (a record), to redraw (e.g. the map), to remake
- 春慶塗 【しゅんけいぬり】 Shunkei lacquerware, lacquerware created using transparent lacquer on yellow or red-stained wood, allowing the natural wood grain to be seen
- 中塗り 【なかぬり】 intermediate coat of paint or lacquer, second coat
- 塗れる 【まみれる】 to be smeared, to be covered
Readings
- Korean:
- do
Spanish
- pintar
- embadurnar
- untar
- laquear
- recubrir
Portuguese
- pintura
- gesso
- emplastar
- untar
- cobertura
French
- peinture
- peindre
- tartiner
- barbouiller
- enduire
- recouvrir
| 1637 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1333 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1124 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1759 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 438 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2038 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1073 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1121 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1694 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 360 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3523 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1818 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2473 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1679 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 5338 | Morohashi |
| 2841 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1074 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1663 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1792 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1615 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 372 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3b10.10 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-10-3 | SKIP code |
| 4416.3 | Four corner code |
| 3810.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-37-41 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5857 | Unicode hex code |