すうじ (Numbers) 3
So far we’ve covered from 1-20 and 20-100.
Now we’re going to do 100-1000.
It may seem like a big jump, but it’s not nearly as taxing as it seems.
In English, we have names for the units. By units I mean ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.
In Japanese, they have all those but, there’s also a unit for 10-thousands.
It’ll make more sense when you see it, but that’ll be in a later post.
Below are the “hundreds” units, including 1,000 .
| 10. | juu | じゅう |
| 100. | hyaku | ひゃく |
| 200. | nihyaku | にひゃく |
| 300. | sanbyaku* | さんびゃく |
| 400. | yonhyaku~ | よんひゃく |
| 500. | gohyaku | ごひゃく |
| 600. | roppyaku* | ろっぴゃく |
| 700. | nanahyaku~ | ななひゃく |
| 800. | happyaku* | はっぴゃく |
| 900. | kyuuhyaku | きゅうひゃく |
| 1,000. | sen | せん |
** These are irregular and don’t follow the “___hyaku” pattern.
~~ Also not that these use yon & nana as the prefixes.
shihyaku & shichihyaku would be incorrect.
So lets refresh…
12 is 10 + 2
juuni = juu + ni
42 is 4 * 10 + 2
yonjuuni = yon * juu + ni
Hayku is 100 so to say 101, it’d be
100 + 1 = 101
hayku + ichi = hyakuichi
123 = 100 + 23 (23 is ni * juu + san)
hyakunijuusan = hyaku + ni * juu + san
999 = 900 + 99 (kyuu * juu + kyuu)
kyuuhyakukyuujuukyuu
きゅうひゃくきゅうじゅうきゅう
(not gonna lie, that makes me giggle)
