白玉

 

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白玉

1. white jade

Phono-semantic matching of Tibetan དཔལ་ཡུལ (dpal yul).

白玉

1. (～縣) Baiyu County (a county of Sichuan, China)

白(しら) (shira, “white”) + 玉(たま) (tama, “ball; gem”)

• IPA^(key): [ɕiɾa̠ta̠ma̠]

 

白(しら)玉(たま) • (shiratama) 

1. white gem, such as a pearl
2. rice flour dumpling
3. (figurative) an especially dear person

   白玉(しらたま)のわが子(こ)

   shiratama no wagako

   this precious child of ours

4. abbreviation of 白玉椿 (shiratamatsubaki, “white camellia”)

白(はく) (haku, “white”) + 玉(ぎょく) (gyoku, “gem”)

• IPA^(key): [ha̠kɯ̟ɡʲo̞kɯ̟]

白(はく)玉(ぎょく) • (hakugyoku) 

1. a white colored gem; (especially) a white pearl

•   白玉 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

• “白玉”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006