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hundred
From the hundred 百 hyaku, we can continue to count: hyaku ichi (101),
HYAKU/momo hyakuni (102), 百三 hyakusan (103), and so on. To obtain the hundreds, you can write
nihyaku, sanbyaku, yonhyaku, gohyaku, roppyaku,
nanahyaku, happyaku, kyūhyaku. Note that the sound of hyaku changes
according to the kanji that precedes one hundred. Hyaku can be combined with other kanji,
such as hyaku.en (one hundred yen) or hyakunin (one hundred people).
Radical: 百 Number of strokes: six
thousand
From sen, we can continue to count sen.ichi (1,001), sen.ni (1,002), sen.san (1,003), and so on. You
write thousands as nisen (two thousand), sanzen (three thousand), yonsen
SEN/chi (four thousand), gosen (five thousand), rokusen (six thousand), nanasen
(seven thousand), hassen (eight thousand), kyūsen (nine thousand). The year
2019, the beginning of the new era called Reiwa will be 二千十九 nisenjūkyū-nen with nen being
the counter for years. You can also combine the numbers with other counters. For example, you
can add nin, the counter for people, to sen to say sennin, which means “1,000 people.”
Radical: 千 Number of strokes: three
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