How to say "hundred" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 百ひゃくnumeralThe normal word for the number 100 and for counting hundreds of things. Choose this in everyday speech and writing whenever you simply mean the quantity one hundred.
- 百ももnumeralA poetical way to say one hundred, encountered mainly in classical poetry and literary language. Seldom the word you want in ordinary conversation, where the standard reading is used instead.
- nounA loanword meaning hundred. It is uncommon and marginal as a translation; you might meet it in sports scoring or other borrowed contexts, but numbers are normally said with the native word.
Use 百（ひゃく）for ordinary counting and numbers; 百（もも）is a poetical variant, and 「ハンドレッド」 is a rare loanword mainly in special or foreign-flavored contexts.
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