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百 kanji
hundred
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ヒャクビャク
Kun readings
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Words with 百
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —百薬の長the best medicine (i.e. sake)
- —六百六号arsphenamine; compound 606; salvarsan
- —百鬼夜行nightly procession of monsters, spirits, etc.; veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about
- —百戦錬磨veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; hard-bitten; rich in experience; very experienced
- —百獣の王king of beasts (i.e. lion)
- —四百四病every type of disease
- —四百余州all China
- —一罰百戒punishing a crime to make an example for others
- —議論百出diverse arguments arising in great numbers
- —百人百様so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world
- —百尺竿頭the highest state of one's enlightenment; the highest level one can attain
- —諸子百家Hundred Schools of Thought (during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period)
- —読書百遍repeated reading (makes the meaning clear); reading something again and again (will lead one to realize its meaning)
- —八百八町the whole enormous extent of Edo; from one side of Edo to the other
- —百折不撓indefatigability; indomitableness
- —百日天下very short-lived regime; very brief reign; (Napoleon's post-Elba) Hundred Days
- —百年河清waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; when the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- —百慮一得even a fool may sometimes give good counsel
- —武芸百般every martial art; all the martial arts
- —文武百官all the officials, both military and civil