百
hundred
6 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 163.
Readings
- ヒャク (on reading): 数百 (すうひゃく) several hundred; 何百 (なんびゃく) hundreds
- もも (kun reading): 百夜 (ももよ) many nights; 百千鳥 (ももちどり) many bird
- ビャク (on reading): 何百個 (なんびゃっこ) large number of items; 百合 (びゃくごう) lily (as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine)
- Read as a whole word: 八百長 (やおちょう) match fixing; 八百屋 (やおや) greengrocer; 八百万 (やおよろず) myriad
Components
Kanji containing 百
- 憂 melancholy
- 佰 hundred
- 陌 east-west path between paddies
- 栢 oak
- 瓸 hectogram
- 竡 hectolitre
- 弼 help
- 戞 lance
- 粨 hectometre
- 貊 barbarians
Words using 百
- 数百 (すうひゃく) several hundred
- 何百 (なんびゃく) hundreds
- 百貨店 (ひゃっかてん) department store
- 百均 (ひゃっきん) hundred-yen store
- 百科事典 (ひゃっかじてん) encyclopedia
- 八百長 (やおちょう) match fixing
- 八百屋 (やおや) greengrocer
- 八百万 (やおよろず) myriad
- 小百合 (さゆり) lily
- 百済 (くだら) Baekje (ancient Korean kingdom; 18 BCE-660 CE)
- 百夜 (ももよ) many nights
- 百千鳥 (ももちどり) many bird
- 百声鳥 (ももこえどり) lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- 百重 (ももえ) piling up highly
- 百度 (ももたび) hundred times
- 何百個 (なんびゃっこ) large number of items
- 百合 (びゃくごう) lily (as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine)
- 百合 (ゆり) lily (Lilium spp.)
- 白百合 (しらゆり) white lily
- 白百合女子大学 (しらゆりじょしだいがく) Shirayuri Women's College
- 黒百合 (くろゆり) black lily (Fritillaria camtschatcensis)
- 百合根 (ゆりね) lily bulb
218 words in all.