百
bǎi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Hundred: the unit for counting in hundreds. It always needs a number in front, so one hundred is 一百, never 百 alone; 两百 or 二百 is two hundred, 三百五十 three hundred and fifty. In compounds it also means 'all kinds of': 百货 is the 'hundred goods' of a department store.
Trăm: đơn vị để đếm hàng trăm. Trước nó luôn phải có một con số: một trăm là 一百 chứ không nói riêng chữ 百; 两百 hoặc 二百 là hai trăm, 三百五十 là ba trăm năm mươi. Trong từ ghép còn có nghĩa “đủ mọi loại”, như 百货 (bách hoá).
NumeralRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “百” mean?
Hundred: the unit for counting in hundreds. It always needs a number in front, so one hundred is 一百, never 百 alone; 两百 or 二百 is two hundred, 三百五十 three hundred and fifty. In compounds it also means 'all kinds of': 百货 is the 'hundred goods' of a department store.
Is “百” formal or informal?
百 is generally neutral.