白土

白土

1. (literary) chalk (the stone)

   • 令人各以白土，書「甲子」二字於家中大門上。 [MSC, trad.]
     令人各以白土，书「甲子」二字于家中大门上。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: c. 1330 - 1400: Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 1

     Lìng rén gè yǐ báitǔ, shū “jiǎzǐ” èr zì yú jiā zhōng dàmén shàng. [Pinyin]

     He ordered (his followers) to use chalk to write "a new beginning" on the outer doors of their homes.

2. (archaic) white potter's clay; kaolin; china clay
3. (archaic) opium
4. (archaic) Alternative name for 冀州 (Jìzhōu, “Ji Province (one of the Nine Provinces of ancient China)”).

• (chalk):

• (white potter's clay):

• (opium):

Possibly from Middle Chinese 白土 (MC baek thuX|duX).

• (Tokyo) はくど [háꜜkùdò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠kɯ̟do̞]

白(はく)土(ど) • (hakudo) 

1. white soil or earth
2. a weathered white rock, such as rhyolite, used for paints, cement mixtures, etc.
3. short for 酸性白土 (sansei hakudo): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• 活性(かっせい)白(はく)土(ど) (kassei hakudo)
• 酸性(さんせい)白(はく)土(ど) (sansei hakudo)
• パイプ白(はく)土(ど) (paipu hakudo)

白(はく)土(ど) • (Hakudo) 

1. a surname

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Hizen-no-kuni Fudoki (c. 739 CE).

Compound of 白 (shira, “white”) +‎ 土 (tsuchi, “earth, soil”).

• (Tokyo) しらつち [shìrátsúchí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɾa̠t͡sɨt͡ɕi]

白(しら)土(つち) • (shiratsuchi) 

1. white soil or earth, such as chalk
2. kaolin or other clay used for pottery or ceramics
3. white lacquer

• (white soil, white lacquer): 白(はく)亜(あ), 白(はく)堊(あ) (hakua)
• (pottery clay): 陶土(とうど) (tōdo)

白(しら)土(つち) • (Shiratsuchi) 

1. a surname

Compound of 白 (shiro, “white”) +‎ 土 (tsuchi, “earth, soil”).

• (Tokyo) しろつち [shìrótsúchí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɾo̞t͡sɨt͡ɕi]

白(しろ)土(つち) • (shirotsuchi) 

1. Same as しらつち (shiratsuchi) above

白(しろ)土(つち) • (Shirotsuchi) 

1. a surname

From Old Japanese.

Compound of 白 (shira, “white”) +‎ 土 (ni, “earth”).

Also used in the Man'yōshū (759 CE) as 借訓 (shakkun) kana for ⟨sirani⟩, as in the phrase 知らに (shirani, “did not know”).

• 白粉

白(しら)土(に) • (shirani) 

1. white soil used as a pigment