Original meaning: file of one hundred soldiers
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 百 represents the sound.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | mbraːɡ |
說文解字
《說文》：“佰，相什佰也。从人、百。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)