English: hundred	On-Yomi: ヒャク ビャク	Kun-Yomi: もも お ど どう なり ひゃっ ひゅく も もんど ゆ

Bushu (Radical) Info:
一 (いち) – one
白 (しろ) – white

Henshall Mnemonic: score one hundred with one white thumbnail

Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #163 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 四百   [よんひゃく]
  four hundred   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 三百   [さんびゃく]
  (n) 300; many   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 百   [ひゃく]
  (num) 100; hundred   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 八百屋   [やおや]
  (n) greengrocer   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 二百   [にひゃく]
  two hundred; 200   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 百万   [ひゃくまん]
  (n) 1,000,000; one million   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 百科事典   [ひゃっかじてん]
  (n) encyclopedia   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 百科辞典   [ひゃっかじてん]
  (n) encyclopedia   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 千九百年代   [せんきゅうひゃくねんだい]
  the 1900s   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 百億   [ひゃくおく]
  10,000,000,000; ten billion (American); ten milliard (British)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 百貨店   [ひゃっかてん]
  (n) (department) store(s)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 百合   [ゆり]
  (n) lily   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 何百   [なんびゃく]
  hundreds   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 百姓   [ひゃくしょう]
  (n) farmer; peasant   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 百八十度   [ひゃくはちじゅうど]
  180 degrees; complete change   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 二百十日   [にひゃくとおか]
  (n) 210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar); the storm day   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 二百二十日   [にひゃくはつか]
  (n) 220th day; end of the storm period   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 数百   [すうひゃく]
  several hundreds   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 百 at jisho.org, Yookoso! or WWWJDIC
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Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.