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百
Hundred
JLPT N5
Interesting Fact
One of Japan's most famous proverbs is Hyakubun wa Ikken ni Shikazu (百聞は一見に如かず): "Hearing something one hundred times is not as good as seeing it once." The saying reminds us that experience is often a better teacher than words. You can listen to one hundred stories about a place, but seeing it with your own eyes is something entirely different.
Memory Trick
Imagine stacking one hundred gold coins into a towering pile. That's 百, meaning hundred.
Readings
Onyomi: ヒャク (hyaku)
Kunyomi:
Example Words
百
ひゃく (hyaku)
One hundred
百円
ひゃくえん (hyakuen)
100 yen
三百
さんびゃく (sanbyaku)
300
百人
ひゃくにん (hyakunin)
100 people
Example Sentence
この本は百ページあります。
この ほん は ひゃくページ あります。
kono hon wa hyaku peeji arimasu
This book has 100 pages.