白
White
| on’yomi | kun’yomi | Radicals |
|---|---|---|
| はく | しろ | 白 |
Meaning: White
The radical white and the kanji white are the same.
Study your radicals hard! Most important thing!
Reading: はく
The white team was the first to be able to hack (はく) the white iPhone.
Imagine two teams (black and white), wearing their team colors, working really hard on hacking the iPhone. It is a huge contest, and people are watching with a lot of tensions, to see who will hack the white iPhone first. Feel that tension, and see the colors separating them so vividly. The colors are important, and the excitement of the winner holding up the hacked iPhone is too.
Vocabulary
Try to learn the meanings of these words before moving on. They’re good.
a 白（しろ）＝ White
- Meaning: The meaning is the same as the kanji.
- Reading: The reading is the kun’yomi reading. You can think of a woman. “She Wrote” (しろ) in all white, making it impossible to read (go ahead, try it, see if you can read the white on white).
- Extra: The adjective version of this word is 白い (しろい).
a 白人（はくじん）＝ White Person (Caucasian)
- Combo: 白 (white) + 人 (person)
- Meaning: A white person is a white person aka a Caucasian person.