百
Meanings
Numeric
1. hundred; 100 (陌 and 佰 are used in legal documents)
Other spellings
陌佰一〇〇
Other readings
Kanji used
Kanji in other spellings
Pitch accent
ひゃく
Used in vocabulary
１８０度
180 degrees; complete (about-face; in policy, opinion, etc.); radical (change); hundred-and-eighty degree (turn)
Noun
百人一首
(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game
Noun
百鬼夜行
nightly procession of monsters, spirits, etc.; veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about
Noun
百鬼夜行
nightly procession of monsters, spirits, etc.; veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about
Noun
百物語
round of ghost stories (trad. at night with a lamp or candle being extinguished after each story)
Noun
百度参り
hundred times worship; walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine, offering a prayer each time; visiting a place repeatedly (to make a request)
Noun
Examples47
彼
He drew $100 from his account.
最高
You may spend a maximum of 100 dollars.
私
I paid 800 yen for this book.
千
If you add one hundred to one thousand, you get eleven hundred.
ガン
Cancer is not one but more than a hundred distinct diseases.
彼女
She is likely to live to be one hundred.