jmdict 1474910 Active (id#2367056)
白い [ichi1,news1,nf16]
【 しろい [ichi1,news1,nf16] 】
  1. [adj-i]
    • white
  2. [adj-i]
    • blank (e.g. paper)
    • uncolored
    • unmarked
    • spotless
    • immaculate
  3. [adj-i]
    • innocent
    • not guilty
    • pure
  4. [adj-i] [arch]
    • bright
    • vivid
  5. [adj-i] [arch]
    • inexperienced
    • naive
    • unrefined
Conjugations
History:
    • A 2026-04-09 07:39:55 Jim Breen (id#2367056)
    • A* 2026-04-08 12:45:29 Carl Bader-Nia (id#2366957)
    • Comments
      Switching sense two and three.
I don't think "guiltless" is needed.
    • Refs
      Sankoku, Shinsen, Oukoku, GG5, Daijirin

The smaller kokugos and GG5 all lead with the "blank" sense over the "innocent" sense.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=not+guilty,unguilty,guiltless&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

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    • Diff
      @@ -22,3 +22,5 @@
-<gloss>innocent</gloss>
-<gloss>guiltless</gloss>
-<gloss>not guilty</gloss>
+<gloss>blank (e.g. paper)</gloss>
+<gloss>uncolored</gloss>
+<gloss>unmarked</gloss>
+<gloss>spotless</gloss>
+<gloss>immaculate</gloss>
@@ -28,3 +30,3 @@
-<gloss>blank</gloss>
-<gloss>uncolored</gloss>
-<gloss>unmarked</gloss>
+<gloss>innocent</gloss>
+<gloss>not guilty</gloss>
+<gloss>pure</gloss>
    • A* 2026-04-08 10:15:34 (id#2366937)
    • Refs
      daijs
    • Diff
      @@ -19,0 +20,25 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
+<gloss>innocent</gloss>
+<gloss>guiltless</gloss>
+<gloss>not guilty</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
+<gloss>blank</gloss>
+<gloss>uncolored</gloss>
+<gloss>unmarked</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
+<misc>&arch;</misc>
+<gloss>bright</gloss>
+<gloss>vivid</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
+<misc>&arch;</misc>
+<gloss>inexperienced</gloss>
+<gloss>naive</gloss>
+<gloss>unrefined</gloss>
+</sense>
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