► 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:
- 日本人は白人ではない悲しさで結局欧米では差別を受ける ⇨ Japanese still receive discrimination in US and Europe because of the disadvantage of not being whites
- 彼は金を盗んだことを白状した ⇨ He admitted he’d stolen the money
- 映画は前評判通り面白かった ⇨ The movie was as good as advertised, hyped
- 白と黒が互い違いになった模様 ⇨ A pattern with white and black dovetailing, alternating
- 彼は白血病で病死した ⇨ He died of leukemia
- 便器は普通白い ⇨ Toilet bowls are usually white
- あの映画は普通に面白かった ⇨ The movie was (not spectacular but) fairly interesting
- 応援しているチームが余りに簡単に勝つと、それはそれで面白くない ⇨ If my favorite team win too easily, that is also not that fun
- 彼は余白に何かを書き込んだ ⇨ He wrote down something in the blank space
- うちの息子は大変な腕白だ ⇨ My son is very naughty
- 彼はいつも場を白けさせるようなことを言う ⇨ He always says things that makes everybody uncomfortable, annoyed
- 知れば知る程面白くなる ⇨ The more you know the more interesting it gets
- 彼女は重度の白痴だ ⇨ She has severe intellectual disability
- 彼女は彼に好きだと告白した ⇨ She told him that she was in love with him
- 彼は白血病で死んだ ⇨ He died from leukemia