How to say 100 in japanese

1,000,000 hyaku-man (one million) 「100万」 10,000,000 issen-man 「1000万」

Hundreds (100, 200, 300 so on)

100 is 百 (hyaku) and as what happened with 10 十 (juu). To say 200, 300, 400 and so on, you simply put the number before it.

In modern Japanese, cardinal numbers are given the on readings except 4 and 7, which are called yon and nana respectively. Alternate readings are used in month names, day-of-month names, and fixed phrases.

The number four (4) is called either “yon” or “shi” in Japanese. In the case of four you can say any of those. But for other words, like “death” (死）that is also pronounced “shi”, you can’t change it for “yon”. Basically, although 四 (four) and 死 (death) are both pronounced SHI.

Nine (9) is 九 (kyuu, pronounced “kyoo”). Ten (10) is 十 (juu, pronounced “joo”).

There are six unlucky numbers in Japanese. Traditionally, 4 is unlucky because it is sometimes pronounced shi, which is the word for death. Sometimes levels or rooms with 4 don’t exist in hospitals or hotels.

Lucky seven

Like many countries throughout the world, Japan considers the number seven lucky. In Japanese folklore there are the Shichifukuin (七福神 – the Seven Gods of Luck). Tanabata (七夕 – Evening of the Seventh) is an important summertime holiday that’s celebrated on July 7th (7/7).

Floor 0 is missing because first floor means ground floor in China, like the US. Floor 4 is missing because of the very similar pronunciation of “four” and “death” in Chinese.

However, in Japan specifically, the number 9 is a bad-luck number that sounds like “suffering” when spoken aloud; so a price of $9.99, while common in the West, would be viewed negatively. Phone numbers. You would never ask a customer to dial 1-800-death-death-death, death-death, death-death in order to reach you.

9: Just as the number four has a bad-luck soundalike in Chinese, 9 is feared in Japan because it sounds similar to the Japanese word for torture or suffering.