The Chinese Radical: 百


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Meaning
hundred    百

Explanation Tilt your head to the right and read a "1" with two zeros 日 = 100

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
hundred, 100, numerous
bǎi
One stroke 一 and white 白 (Originally the image of a thumbnail symbolizing 100 in gesture language.)
Tilt your head to the right and you see a 1 with two zeros = 100.  
HSK 5
shrink, to withdraw, pull back, abbreviation
suō
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: lodge/hostel 宿 (Under the roof 宀 persons 人 in the hundreds 百 in the lodge.)
The threads (of bed linen) in the hostel will (after washing) shrink.  
宿
HSK 5
dormitory, hostel, to lodge, stay at, old, former
sù, xiǔ, xiù
Top: roof 宀, below: 佰 (person 亻/人 and hundred 百 [tilt your head to the right to read 100])
The roof hosting hundred people is a lodge.  
HSK 5
raised path, street

Left: hill 阝, right: hundred 百 (tilt your head to the right and read '100')
(A street is actually just piled earth cf.街) Hills in hundreds form a street.  
no HSK
assist

Left and rights: bows 弓, middle: hundred 百 (Tilt your head to the right and read '100'.)
Bows in the hundreds are assisting us.  




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