百（ひゃく）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: odaka (tail-high) — high to the end, drops on a following particle (accent on mora 2)
Meaning: 100 (hundred)
Example sentences
- 百円あれば、これが買える。 — If you have a hundred yen, you can buy this.
- 公園に百人ぐらい集まった。 — About a hundred people gathered in the park.
Idioms & proverbs containing “百”
- 雀百まで (すずめひゃくまで) — what is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb
- 酒は百薬の長 (さけはひゃくやくのちょう) — good wine makes good blood; sake is the best of all medicines
- 悪妻は百年の不作 (あくさいはひゃくねんのふさく) — a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
- 三つ子の魂百まで (みつごのたましいひゃくまで) — a leopard cannot change its spots; the child is father to the man; the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100
- 百日の説法屁一つ (ひゃくにちのせっぽうへひとつ) — single mistake which ruins all one's hard work; one blunder rendering a long period of effort useless; one fart in a hundred days of sermons
- 百聞は一見にしかず (ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず) — seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words
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