KANAE
Character · Numbers

百

ひゃくぶん hyakubunひゃくがい hyakugaiはくたい hakutaiひゃくり hyakuri

hundred

Composition

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Origin

白 borrowed for its sound, topped with a stroke (一) marking the number: one hundred.

In the thoughts

  1. 百聞hyakubunhundred hearings
  2. 百害hyakugaihundred harms
  3. 百代hakutaihundred generations
  4. 百里hyakurihundred leagues

Proverbs carrying this character

  1. 018 Hearing a hundred times is not worth seeing once.
  2. 075 A hundred harms, not one benefit.
  3. 108 The days and months are travelers of a hundred generations.
  4. 122 He who travels a hundred leagues counts ninety as halfway.
  5. 176 Better fifty today than a hundred tomorrow.

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