How to write 百 (bǎi, “hundred”)
百 (bǎi), an HSK 1 character, means “hundred”, “numerous” and “all kinds of”. It is the number 100. As a top-bottom character it splits into 一 (“one”), stroke 1; 白 (“white”, the radical), strokes 2–6, written the top first. On its own it is an HSK 1 word; it also forms 老百姓 (“ordinary people”), 百分点 (“percentage point”) and 百货 (“general merchandise”). Japanese reads it hyaku, “hundred”, as a JLPT N5 kanji.
- Pinyin
- bǎi
- Strokes
- 6
- HSK
- 1
- Radical
- 白 (“white”)
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- Horizontal ㇐top leftrightwards
- Dot ㇔topdown and right → down and left
- Vertical ㇑leftdownwards
- Horizontal-turn ㇕leftrightwards → downwards
- Horizontal ㇐leftrightwards
- Horizontal ㇐bottom leftrightwards
Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese draw all 6 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.
百 in numbers
- 老百姓 — ordinary people
- 百分点 — percentage point
- 百货 — general merchandise
- 百分比 — percentage
- 百合 — (botany) lily
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| bǎi third tone | hundred; numerous; all kinds of | — | 老百姓 百分点 百货 百分比 |
- HSK 2025 syllabus
- level 1
- 2021 standard
- level 1
- HSK 2.0
- in a level 2 word
- Words with it
- 171 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 百
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 百 | bǎi | hundred; numerous HSK 1 |
| 老百姓 | lǎobǎixìng | ordinary people; the "person in the street" HSK 5 |
| 百分点 百分點 | bǎifēndiǎn | percentage point HSK 6 |
| 百货 百貨 | bǎihuò | general merchandise HSK 6 |
| 百分比 | bǎifēnbǐ | percentage HSK 7-9 |
| 百合 | bǎihé | (botany) lily HSK 7-9 |
| 百般 | bǎibān | in hundred and one ways; in every possible way HSK 7-9 |
| 千方百计 千方百計 | qiānfāng-bǎijì | lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means HSK 7-9 |
| 百科全书 百科全書 | bǎikēquánshū | encyclopedia HSK 7-9 |
| 千姿百态 千姿百態 | qiānzī-bǎitài | (idiom) to come in many different shapes; to display a great variety… HSK 7-9 |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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