白はく銀ぎん

noun

silver

Refers to the metal silver, often in a refined or poetic register. Common in compound words and formal contexts.

• 白はく銀ぎんの食しょっ器きが展てん示じされている。

  Silver tableware is on display.

noun

silver color; snow (figurative)

Used for the color silver, and figuratively for snow, especially in poetic or literary descriptions of snowy landscapes.

• 山やま々やまは白はく銀ぎんに輝かがやいていた。

  The mountains shone in silver (with snow).