白髪
Meanings
Noun
No-adjective
1. white hair; grey hair; gray hair
Other readings
Kanji used
Pitch accent
はくはつ
Used in vocabulary
白髪三千丈
many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white); three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)
Expression
Examples5
父
My father's hair has become streaked with gray.
父
Father's hair has turned gray.
その
The man must be over sixty, for his hair is gray.
父
My father is becoming gray.
白髪
Her gray hair makes her look older than her age.