百
부수: 白
획수: 6획
百 has the meanings one hundred and all/many.
百 = 一 + 白
X = distinguishing mark + phonetic borrowing
• 一 is used to distinguish 百 from 白 by adding a distinctive mark.
• 白 likely depicts the colour white and became used for ‘hundred’ through phonetic similarity because ‘hundred’ and ‘white’ are close in pronunciation. It is unclear what 白 originally depicted. It has been suggested to depict a thumb or indicate a feudal leader.
Evolution:
百 = one hundred ➔ all/many
Mnemonic
You can remember 百 as 白 plus one extra stroke 一.
白 can be imagined as ‘white light from the sun 日‘ or ‘clear day’.
Vocab
| 五 | 백 | one hundred |
| 數百 | 수백 | hundreds of |
| 百聞 | 백문 | seeing is believing (via idiom) |
| 百分 | 백분 | thoroughly (ie careful division) |
| 百分率 | 백분율 | percentage |
| 百日咳 | 백일해 | whooping cough |
| 百合 | 백합 | lily (flower) |
| 百日紅 | 백일홍 | zinnia (flower) |
| 數百萬 | 수백만 | millions of |
| 百濟 | 백제 | Baekje (kingdom) |
| 一罰百戒 | 일벌백계 | exemplary punishment |
| 百姓 | 백성 | the (common) people |
| 百方 | 백방 | every way |
| 百獸 | 백수 | all kinds of animals |
| 百官 | 백관 | all government officials |
| 凡百 | 범백 | manners (via ‘all matters’) |
| 百藥 | 백약 | all sorts of medicine |
| 百貨店 | 백화점 | department store |
| 百科事典 | 백과사전 | encyclopedia |
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Bibliography
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 百].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 269]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 百, 一, 白].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 白]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.