白

Dated term

Belarusian (language)

Rare term; Medicine

lobotomy; leucotomy; frontal lobotomy; frontal leucotomy

white person; Caucasian

Archaic

beginner; amateur

Archaic

unlicensed prostitute

white

striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus)

(spoken) line (in a play, film, etc.); one's lines

Mahjong

white dragon tile

Mahjong

winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles

Abbreviation; Rare term

Belgium

Abbreviation; Archaic

white person; Caucasian

Common noun

white background

Noun or verb acting prenominally; Esp. しらじ

blank

しらじ only; Archaic; Common noun

female virgin

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

Archaic

court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand

Archaic

dancing girl (end of the Heian period)

prostitute

tempo in gagaku

Archaic

starched white uniform worn by menservants of government officials

something pasted with plain white paper (e.g. umbrella, lantern)

Abbreviation

white goods; large household electrical appliances; whiteware

Archaic; Secret language of court ladies

salt; tofu; white sake

white cloth

empty land; empty lot

Archaic

respectable woman (as opposed to a prostitute)

rice water

young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training

man with no title and no rank (under the ritsuryō system); commoner

はくちょう only

servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master

humble greeting at the beginning of a letter

to look daunted

しろた only

snow-covered rice paddy

field

white sake (presented as an offering to the gods)

fisherman

vitiligo; leucoderma; leukoderma

white leprosy

ordinary woman secretly engaged in prostitution (Edo period)

Idiomatic expression

to die (of a poet, artist, etc.)