白熊

Chinese

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	bear; to scold; to rebuke
simp. and trad. (白熊)		白	熊
Literally: “white bear”.

Compare Japanese 白熊 (shirokuma), Korean 흰곰 (huin-gom), Vietnamese gấu trắng, all of which literally means “white bear”.

白熊

From 白 (shiro, “white”) +‎ 熊 (kuma, “bear”).^[1]^[2] Compare Chinese 白熊, Korean 흰곰 (huin-gom), Vietnamese gấu trắng, all of which literally mean “white bear”.

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) しろくま [shìrókúmá] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
- IPA^(key): [ɕiɾo̞kɯ̟ᵝma̠]

白熊 (hiragana しろくま, katakana シロクマ, rōmaji shirokuma)

Synonym of 北極熊 (Hokkyokuguma, “polar bear”)
- 1990 June 15, Takahashi, Rumiko, “ＰＡＲＴパート.５　秘ひ伝でん書しょを奪うばえ [PART.5 Snatching the Scroll of Secrets]”, in らんま½ [Ranma ½], volume 11 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 72:
  日 (にっ)本 (ぽん)の山 (さん)中 (ちゅう)に…シロクマがいるか—————っ‼
  Nippon no sanchū ni… shirokuma ga iru ka—————'‼
  Why is there… a polar bear on a Japanese mountain⁉

↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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