明白 – Vocabulary details

明めい白はく

Meanings

Adjective (な)

1. obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit; overt

その指し示じの示しめすところは明めい白はくだった。What the instructions indicated was obvious.

Kanji used

明

bright

白

white

Pitch accent

め

いはく

Used in: 2236

Composed of

明めい

brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

白はく

white; striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus); (spoken) line (in a play, film, etc.); one's lines; white dragon tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles; Belgium

Used in vocabulary (3 in total)

明めい明めい白はく白はく

clearly evident; quite obvious; as clear as day; beyond any doubt; strikingly apparent

事じ理り明めい白はく

facts being beyond dispute; logic being indisputable

罪ざい状じょう明めい白はく

being proven guilty of a crime; having one's guilt for a crime made clear; (the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear

Examples (22 in total)

明めい白はくな言こと葉ばで説せつ明めいしなさい。

Explain it in plain language.

彼かれが間ま違ちがっているのは明めい白はくだ。

It's obvious that he's wrong.

立たち場ばの上じょう下げは明めい白はくだった。

The hierarchy of status was clear.