白色(はくしょく)

はくしょく
noun
white; white color
color
1. white; white color
The color white, used in formal, technical, or scientific contexts rather than everyday speech.
A white powder was detected.
This flower varies from white to pale pink.
The development of white LEDs is based on Nobel Prize-winning research.

The formal, Sino-Japanese reading for white, composed of 白(はく) (white) + 色(しょく) (color). Used in technical, scientific, and official descriptions. In everyday conversation, 白(しろ) or 白(しろ)い is used instead. Common in compound terms and product descriptions.

Common collocations

  • 白色(はくしょく)光(こう): white light
  • 白色(はくしょく)矮星(わいせい): white dwarf (astronomy)
  • 白色(はくしょく)人種(じんしゅ): white race (Caucasian)
  • 白色(はくしょく)テロ: White Terror (political purge)

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