Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 1
百 hundred
- Meaning
- hundred
- On reading
- ヒャク
- Kun reading
- -
Memory hook
一 (one) sitting on top of 白 (white): one white thing, repeated a hundred times. ヒャク, though it shifts to びゃく in 三百 and ぴゃく in 六百.
Words that use 百
百
ひゃく
hundred
三百
さんびゃく
300
How to write 百
Stroke order · 6 strokes
1
2
3
4
5
6
- 1. The horizontal across the top.
- 2. The sweep down to the left.
- 3. The vertical on the left.
- 4. Horizontal across the middle, then turn down on the right side.
- 5. The horizontal across the middle.
- 6. The horizontal across the bottom.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
百 is taught on day 4 of the kanji course, alongside 千 万 円, with two writing passes and a short quiz.