ひゃくねん
Meanings
Noun
1. century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
Kanji used
hundred
year
Pitch accent
ひゃ
ねん
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Composed of
100; hundred
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
the hundredth year; out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope; rare chance; unusually good fortune
100th birthday anniversary
waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; when the sky falls, we shall catch larks
a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
century of humiliation (in Chinese history)
Examples (1 in total)
A hundred years is called a century.