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 N1
1486 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鯨肉 【ゲイニク】 whale meat
- 鯨飲 【ゲイイン】 drinking hard, drinking like a fish
- 酔鯨 【スイゲイ】 Suigei
- 白鯨 【ハクゲイ】 Moby-Dick (1851 novel by Herman Melville)
Kun reading compounds
- 鯨 【くじら】 whale (Cetacea spp.)
- 鯨肉 【げいにく】 whale meat
- タスマニア鯨 【タスマニアくじら】 Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
- 五島鯨 【ごとうくじら】 larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
Readings
- Korean:
- gyeong
Spanish
- ballena
Portuguese
- baleia
French
- baleine
1208 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1768 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
5307 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1345 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1921 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
2831 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
700 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
713 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
915 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
1933 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
2361 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1214 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1661 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
321 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
46257 | Morohashi |
1882 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
6886 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
315 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
337 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
1927 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
2541 | 2001 Kanji |
11a8.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
1-11-8 | SKIP code |
2039.6 | Four corner code |
1-23-63 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
9be8 | Unicode hex code |