# 白 white

日 (sun, day) + 丶 (dot)
★★★★★
5 strokes
STRONG

## Onyomi

HAKU | as in,"HACK up the white people into pieces!!! Dirty swine-eating slave-drivers!"

## Mnemonic

| Sun plus a dot, which we'll call, say, a blunt of marijuana, for reasons which shall become clear shortly. RAY is a white cat, but he talks black. RAY likes to smoke a Dutch. Picture White Ray smoking a dutch (the dot). all day . Thus:　白

## Kunyomi

しろ*い | white ★★★★★

## Jukugo

面白*い(おもしろい) | interesting ★★★★★ SARC FP 面 (front surface / face) + 白 (white) = 面白*い (interesting) interesting, (in a good way) but also can mean funny (as in, laughing at you!) this deliberate ambiguity being a big thing with Japanese Sarcasm. Although in this case, fully half the time people are being serious.
白人(はくじん) | white people ★★★★☆ NEO 白 (white) + 人 (person) = 白人 (white people) white people (do the Humpty Hump, they do the humpty hump)
白黒(しろくろ) | black-and-white ★☆☆☆☆ KUNKUN 白 (white) + 黒 (black) = 白黒 (black-and-white)

## Used In

- 皆
- 習
- 泉
- 泊
- 綿
- 拍
- 迫
- 皇
- 激
- 原
- 良
- 百
- 的
- 楽