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白

しろ

white

Mnemonic

The sun coming up over the edge of things and everything gone pale in it. The same しろ as the castle, which is the colour most of them are painted. It is the colour snow comes in: しろ.

Worth knowing

Same reading as 城 しろ, castle. 白い しろい is the adjective, and this is the colour as a noun.

Built from

white
A pictograph. Usually read as the sun just breaking the horizon.

Also read しろ

castle

Words sharing these kanji

interesting, amusing white, blank confession, admission

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