► 成句
白 [(2)しら] [白を切る] meaning: pretend rank: 2
☆ しらを切るのはいい加減にしてよ ⇨ Stop pretending not to know already (☛ Pretend not to know)
☆ 彼はどこまでもしらを切った ⇨ He insisted he didn’t know anything (☛ Pretend not to know)
► 名詞
白 [(1)しろ] meaning: white rank: 1
☆ 白のドレス ⇨ A white dress
白 [(1)しろ] [coll] meaning: innocent rank: 3
☆ あいつは白だと思う ⇨ I think he is not at fault. I don’t think he committed the crime
白 [(1)しろ] meaning: man rank: 3
☆ 白の勝ち ⇨ A win for the white, men (☛ Japanese traditional grouping of gender. Men are white and women are red)
More examples:
- 白人を見たことがなかったアフリカの子供達が彼女を珍しそうに見つめた ⇨ African kids who had never seen white people looked at her curiously
- 彼女は重度の白痴だ ⇨ She has severe intellectual disability
- 白血球 ⇨ White blood cell
- 白状したらどうだ、強情者め ⇨ Why don’t you come clean, you stubborn devil
- 白と黒が互い違いになった模様 ⇨ A pattern with white and black dovetailing, alternating
- あの映画は全然面白く無い ⇨ That movie is not interesting at all
- 便器は普通白い ⇨ Toilet bowls are usually white
- 彼は面白い人だ ⇨ He’s an interesting person
- 白身魚 ⇨ White-meat fish
- 彼女は洗濯物を漂白した ⇨ She bleached the laundry
- 白雪姫と七人の小人 ⇨ Snow White and the seven dwarfs
- 彼はいつも場を白けさせる ⇨ He always makes the scene awkward, throws a wet blanket
- このゲームはやばいくらい面白い ⇨ This game is dangerously fun (and addictive)
- 漂白剤 ⇨ Bleach
- 白昼の強盗事件 ⇨ A robbery under broad daylight