- 面白い【おもしろい】 - interesting, fascinating, intriguing, enthralling, amusing, funny, comical, enjoyable, fun, entertaining, pleasant, agreeable, good, satisfactory, favourable, desirable, encouraging 
- 白人【はくじん】 - white person, Caucasian, beginner, amateur, unlicensed prostitute 
- 告白【こくはく】 - confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.), admission, professing one's feelings (to someone one wants to go out with), declaration of love, profession (of faith), confession (of sins) 
- 白い【しろい】 - white 
- 自白【じはく】 - confession, admission 
- 白状【はくじょう】 - confession 
- 白鳥【はくちょう】 - swan (Cygnus spp.), cygnet, white-feathered bird 
- 白雪【しらゆき】 - white snow 
- 真っ白【まっしろ】 - pure white, blank (e.g. mind, paper) 
- 白血球【はっけっきゅう】 - white blood cell, leukocyte, leucocyte 
- 面白【おもしろ】 - amusing, funny, interesting 
- 潔白【けっぱく】 - innocence, guiltlessness, purity, uprightness, integrity 
- 明白【めいはく】 - obvious, clear, plain, evident, apparent, explicit, overt 
- 白書【はくしょ】 - white paper (government report) 
- 空白【くうはく】 - blank space (in documents), vacuum, blank, void 
- 白紙【はくし】 - white paper, flyleaf, blank paper, clean slate, lack of prior opinion, positions, etc., scratch, beginning 
- 白石【しろいし】 - white stone, white (go pieces) 
- 紅白【こうはく】 - red and white, colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors), two teams, two groups, Kōhaku Uta Gassen, annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK) 
- 白髪【しらが】 - white hair, grey hair, gray hair 
- 白衣【はくい】 - white clothes, white robe, white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.), commoner without rank (in ancient China), layperson