足有一百号人哪
“There were at least 100 of them.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“it was the Marquis of Wu'an's Blood-Robed Cavalry.”
足有一百号人哪
“There were at least 100 of them.”
我当是谁呢
“No wonder.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In spoken Chinese, substituting 个 or 位 with 号 when counting people conveys a gritty, vivid, or underworld/military nuance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as many as; fully; reaching up to
Used before a number to emphasize that the quantity is remarkably large.
about a hundred people
Using 号 as a classifier for people is an authentic colloquial phrasing to describe headcounts.
Phonetic variant of 啊 after an 'n' ending, adding heightened exclamation and urgency.