拼音
- bǎi (third tone, dipping)
hundred; numerous, all kinds of
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿱一白The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 一meaning partno entry yetThe numeral one, added on top to mark the character as a number.
- 白sound part白 bái is here for its sound alone (bái → bǎi), not for whiteness.
Mnemonic
One 一 written over 白: the lower half carries the sound (bái → bǎi) and the stroke on top marks the thing as a number. From here the numbers stack — 一百, 两百, 三百 — and 百 also does duty for "every kind of": 百货商店, a department store, is literally a shop of a hundred goods.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
含“百”的词
- 百bǎi (third tone, dipping)数词，十的十倍
- 老百姓lǎo (third tone, dipping) bǎi (third tone, dipping) xìng (fourth tone, falling)ordinary people
- 百合bǎi (third tone, dipping) hé (second tone, rising)lily
- 百分点百分點bǎi (third tone, dipping) fēn (first tone, high and level) diǎn (third tone, dipping)percentage point
- 百货百貨bǎi (third tone, dipping) huò (fourth tone, falling)general merchandise
- 千方百计千方百計qiān (first tone, high and level) fāng (first tone, high and level) bǎi (third tone, dipping) jì (fourth tone, falling)lit. thousand ways
- 百分比bǎi (third tone, dipping) fēn (first tone, high and level) bǐ (third tone, dipping)percentage
- 百科全书百科全書bǎi (third tone, dipping) kē (first tone, high and level) quán (second tone, rising) shū (first tone, high and level)encyclopedia