白玉
Chinese edit
white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous |
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simp. and trad. (白玉) |
白 | 玉 |
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
白玉
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Phono-semantic matching of Tibetan དཔལ་ཡུལ (dpal yul).
Proper noun edit
白玉
- (~縣) Baiyu County (a county of Sichuan, China)
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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白 | 玉 |
しら Grade: 1 |
たま Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
白 (shira, “white”) + 玉 (tama, “ball; gem”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- white gem, such as a pearl
- rice flour dumpling
- (figurative) an especially dear person
- 白玉のわが子
- shiratama no wagako
- this precious child of ours
- 白玉のわが子
- abbreviation of 白玉椿 (shiratamatsubaki, “white camellia”)
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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白 | 玉 |
はく Grade: 1 |
ぎょく Grade: 1 |
kan’on |
白 (haku, “white”) + 玉 (gyoku, “gem”)
Pronunciation edit
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See also edit
- 白玉 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja
References edit
- “白玉”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000