bǎi
hundred
Original meaning:
group of 100 soldiers
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 百 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 佰
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
hundred (banker's anti-fraud numeral) | ||
Yaohan retail group |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5437th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+4F70 |
Shuowen | “佰，相什佰也。从人、百。” |
Sources
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