800 in Japanese
八百
Updated June 2026
800 in Japanese is 八百, written はっぴゃく in hiragana and read hap-pyaku. Where gemination doubles up (800 = hap-pyaku)
NUMERAL
800
KANJI
八百
HIRAGANA
はっぴゃく
ROMAJI
hap-pyaku
Build-by-place breakdown
Counter-attached forms
How 800 attaches to common counters. Each links to the per-counter deep-dive.
Real sentence examples
八百屋でりんごを買いました (yaoya de ringo o kaimashita): I bought apples at the greengrocer (yaoya = "the eight-hundred shop").
八百円のランチがあります (hap-pyaku-en no ranchi ga arimasu): there’s a 800-yen lunch.
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Eight hundred is hap-pyaku. Two sound-changes stack: the hachi shortens to ha-, and the hyaku voices via gemination to pyaku, producing hap-pyaku. The same gemination occurs at 600 (rop-pyaku). Notice the cultural use: 八百屋 (yaoya, literally “the 800 shop”) is the traditional name for a Japanese greengrocer, dating from a time when 800 symbolised a large variety of goods.
Frequently asked questions
How do you write 800 in Japanese?
800 is written 八百 in kanji and はっぴゃく in hiragana. In romaji (modified Hepburn) it is hap-pyaku.
What is 800 in hiragana?
800 in hiragana is はっぴゃく. Hiragana spells out the reading hap-pyaku phonetically; the kanji form is 八百.
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