百

See also 佰, and 𦣻

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

百 is from 一, here signifying a number, and 白 used as a phonetic element with its original semantic meaning of acorns spread over the ground. Thus, 百 means, "a large, spreading number," or, "one hundred."

Han character

百 (radical 106 白+1, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一日 (MA), four-corner 1060₀, composition ⿱一白){{#if:白|[[Category:Han characters}}|白01百]]

1. One hundred
2. Numerous; many

See also

• Chinese Numeral 百

  Last: 十; Next: 千.

References

• KangXi: page 785, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22679
• Dae Jaweon: page 1199, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2643, character 1
• Unihan data for U+767E
• http://www.kanjinetworks.com/eng/kanji-dictionary/online-kanji-etymology-dictionary.cfm

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Cantonese

Hanzi

百 (Yale baak3)

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Japanese

Noun

百 (hiragana ひゃく, romaji hyaku)

1. hundred
2. quite a many things
3. hundred years old

Etymology 1

[po] > [ɸo] > [ho].

Noun

百 (hiragana ほ, romaji ho)

1. hundred; used in compounds

Etymology 2

/mo1mo1/: [momo].

Noun

百 (hiragana もも, romaji momo)

1. hundred

Derived terms

• 百声鳥 (ももこえどり, momo koedori); lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
• 百千 (ひゃくせん, hyakusen) or (ももち, momochi); a large number, all sorts, hundreds and thousands
• 百千鳥 (ももちどり, momochidori); all sorts of birds, hundreds and thousands of birds; a plover; a Japanese bush warbler
• 百夜 (ももよ, momo yo); a hundred nights

Kanji

百 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ひゃく (hyaku), びゃく (byaku)
• Kun: もも (momo)
• Nanori: お (o), ど (do), どう (dō), なり (nari), ひゃっ (hyat), ひゅく (hyuku), も (mo), もんど (mondo), ゆ (yu)

Compounds

百科全書

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Korean

Hanja

百
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 백, 맥 (revised: baek, maek, McCune-Reischauer: paek, maek, Yale: payk, mayk)

• Name (hangeul): 일백()

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

百 (pinyin bǎi (bai3), bó (bo2), Wade-Giles pai³, po², mo⁴)

Compounds

百科全书 (百科全書)

百度

Cardinal number

百 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin bǎi)

1. hundred

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Min Nan

• POJ: pah (pah⁴), peh (peh⁴), pek (pek⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

百 (bách, bá)