百姓 – Vocabulary details

百ひゃく姓しょう

Meanings

Noun

Verb (する)

Sensitive

1. farmer; peasant; country bumpkin

2. farming

3. the common people

Alt. forms

百ひゃく姓しょう

97%

ひゃくしょう

Kanji used

百

hundred

姓

surname

Pitch accent

ひゃ

くしょ

う

Conjugations...Used in: 489

Composed of

百ひゃく

100; hundred

姓しょう

surname; family name; hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)

Used in vocabulary (4 in total)

百ひゃく姓しょう家や

farmer's home

百ひゃく姓しょう一いっ揆き

peasant uprising (Edo period); peasants' revolt

お百ひゃく姓しょうさん

farmer

百ひゃく姓しょう読よみ

nonstandard reading of a kanji

Examples (2 in total)

彼かれの両りょう親しんはお百ひゃく姓しょうでした。

His parents were farmers.

百ひゃく姓しょうにとっては花はなより果かが大たい切せつである。

For the peasant, fruits are more important than flowers.