bǎi

hundred

Original meaning: 

group of 100 soldiers

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

百 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

bǎi

  

one hundred

Evolution

佰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
佰 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
佰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bǎi

hundred; hundred (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Most common words with 佰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hundred (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

八佰伴

Yaohan retail group