bǎi
one hundred
Phonosemantic compound. 一 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 百
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
ordinary people | ||
common people | ||
percentage point | ||
hundred | ||
century |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤrak | paek | bǎi | hundred |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 54.7814% of movies
660th most common character in movies
407th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+767E |
Shuowen | “百,十十也。从一、白。數,十百為一貫,相章也。,古文百从自。” |
Sources
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