Sinograph Addenda · Signs

hundred

Namehundred
Readsbǎi
Meanshundred; the many
Taught in14 · All of it

Where it comes from

One set over white — the classic account: bái lends the sound, the stroke tallies the count, and bǎi comes out the far side. The course’s first built numeral, and in the classics also simply “the many”: the hundred names, the hundred crafts. Taught in the all-of-it chapter.

How to remember it

One stroke banked on white: a round hundred.

In the wild

shī sān bǎi"the Songs are three hundred" — the canon counted in one breath
Analects 2.2. urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1h0004:002:2a · license: attribution.