白

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white

On-Yomi: ハク、ビャク — Kun-Yomi: しろ、しら-、しろ.い

Elements:

white, drop, sun, day

Heisig story:

The color white is a mixture of all the primary colors, both for pigments and for light, as we see when a prism breaks up the rays of the sun. Hence, a single drop of sun spells white.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, this character can either retain its meaning of white or take the more graphic meaning of a white bird or dove. This latter stems from the fact that it appears at the top of the kanji for bird, which we shall get to later (Frame 2091).

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 21-7-2007(130): A white ray is a drop of sun.

2) [Danieru] 29-10-2007(61): Even a small drop (') of the sun ( 日 ) would make you see nothing but white.

3) [hazelsmrf] 5-5-2008(25): It's a nice DAY for a WHITE wedding.

4) [TerryS] 31-10-2008(14): WHITE is a drop of sun.

5) [lugelen] 1-9-2011(11): A drop one day fell from above; it was white and from a dove… gross.

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