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Kanji Detail for 百 - "hundred, many"

百

  • Meaning

    百 means "hundred, many." Also associated with all.

    1. Hundred - The number 100; ten times ten.

    2. Many - Numerous; various; all kinds.

  • Words using 百

    • 百貨店 ひゃっかてん Listen department store
    • 数百 すうひゃく Listen several hundred; hundreds (of)
    • 二百二十日 にひゃくはつか Listen 220th day; end of the storm period
    • 何百 なんびゃく Listen hundreds
    • 千九百年代 せんきゅうひゃくねんだい Listen the 1900s
    • 二百十日 にひゃくとおか Listen 210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar); the storm day
    • 百科事典 ひゃっかじてん Listen encyclopedia; encyclopaedia
    • 百姓 ひゃくしょう Listen farmer; peasant; farm laborer

  • Four-character idioms with 百

    • 百家争鳴 ひゃっかそうめい Listen let a hundred schools of thought contend
    • 百戦錬磨 ひゃくせんれんま Listen veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles
    • 一罰百戒 いちばつひゃっかい Listen punishing a crime to make an example for others
    • 三百代言 さんびゃくだいげん Listen pettifogging lawyer; unscrupulous or unethical lawyer; shyster
    • 四百四病 しひゃくしびょう Listen every type of disease
    • 年百年中 ねんびゃくねんじゅう Listen throughout the year; all the year round; always

  • Origin of 百

    一, one, over 白, lending the reading haku: one unit of the white — a single great bundle of a hundred.

    How to remember it: One 一 stamped on a white 白 tag — a sealed bundle of a hundred.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 百

    • Verified meaning: hundred, many
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read とど, どど, はく, ひやく)
    • Also carries these associations: all

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 百

    Given names 百(はく)Listen 百(ひやく)Listen 百(もも)Listen

    Surnames 百(とど)Listen 百(どど)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    hundred

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    one hundred; numerous, many

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Bai

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    one hundred; numerous, many

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A number name. Ten times ten. | Many. Such as 百官 (hundred officials), 百姓 (hundred surnames/common people). All indicate many.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    byaku(ビャク) ビャク

    hyaku(ヒャク) ヒャク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    momo(もも) もも

  • Strokes

    tip

    6 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    白 (shiro・shirohen)

  • Related Keywords

    hundred many all cent complete countless innumerable multitude myriad number numerous score

Sentences including 百

  • This is worth one million yen.

  • The child is father to the man.

  • Few people live to be 100 years old.

  • There are hundreds of books in his study.

  • I get most things at the stores.

  • What would you do , if you had a million dollars?

  • There were hundreds of people there.

  • She has hundreds of books.

  • Few people live to be more than a hundred.

  • There were hundreds of cars on the street.

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