百 means “hundred”

ひゃく · hyaku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

もも

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ヒャク, ビャク

JLPT N5 · Taught in grade 1 · 6 strokes

The story

A hundred cranes: folding one thousand paper cranes grants a wish. A hundred is the first great milestone.

Used in prices, percentages, and the phrase "one hundred percent" (百パーセント)

Its parts

• 一 One · Top
• 白 White · Bottom

One (一) white (白): hundred, a complete pure number

Words with 百

• 百人 (ひゃくにん, hyakunin): a hundred people

Kanji that look like 百

• 白 (white): 百 adds a horizontal line on top of 白: one hundred is white with a cap

More from Ancient Counting

• 千 thousand
• 万 ten thousand
• 半 half
• 零 zero
• 数 number
• 一番 first
• 年 year
• 分 minute
• 多 many
• 一 one
• 二 two
• 三 three

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.