white

(sun, day) + (dot)
★★★★★
5 strokes
STRONG

Onyomi

HAKU

as in,"HACK up the white people into pieces!!! Dirty swine-eating slave-drivers!"

Mnemonic

Sun plus a dot, which we'll call, say, a blunt of marijuana, for reasons which shall become clear shortly.
RAY is a white cat, but he talks black. RAY likes to smoke a Dutch.
Picture White Ray smoking a dutch (the dot). all day .

Thus: 白

Kunyomi

しろ*い white
★★★★★

Jukugo

面白*い(おもしろい)

interesting ★★★★★ SARCFP
(front surface / face) + (white) = 面白*い (interesting)

interesting, (in a good way) but also can mean funny (as in, laughing at you!) this deliberate ambiguity being a big thing with Japanese Sarcasm. Although in this case, fully half the time people are being serious.

白人(はくじん)

white people ★★★★☆ NEO
(white) + (person) = 白人 (white people)

white people (do the Humpty Hump, they do the humpty hump)

白黒(しろくろ)

black-and-white ★☆☆☆☆ KUNKUN
(white) + (black) = 白黒 (black-and-white)

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