亿 (yì): 100 million
亿 (yì) is a Chinese character meaning “100 million.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 亻 (semantic) and 乙 (phonetic). It ranks #1056 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 亿 people. Its radical form 亻 (person) appears in many related characters such as 人 (rén, person), 什 (shén, what), 今 (jīn, now).
Definitions
- 100 million
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亿万noun | yì wàn | millions and millions |
| 十亿noun | shí yì | one billion |
| 数十亿 | shù shí yì | several billion |
| 万亿noun | wàn yì | trillion |
| 千亿noun | qiān yì | myriads |
| 数以亿计 | shù yǐ yì jì | countless |
| 十多亿 | shí duō yì | over one billion |
| 亿万富豪 | yì wàn fù háo | multimillionaire |
| 亿万富翁noun | yì wàn fù wēng | billionaire |
| 杨亿 | yáng yì | Yang Yi (974-1020), Northern Song dynasty writer and poet |
亿 appears in 10 compound words: 30 as the first character, 60 as the last, and 10 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 亿 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
这位老亿虽然年过八旬，但身体依然硬朗。
zhè wèi lǎo yì suī rán nián guò bā xún , dàn shēn tī yī rán yìng lǎng .
Though over eighty years old, this old man remains in robust health.
龙七公:“万亿大市”挑大梁支撑基本面
lóng qī gōng : wàn yì dà shì tiāo dà liáng zhī chēng jī běn miàn
Long Qigong: "Trillion big city" takes the lead to support fundamentals
滙控季息料近3.3元增17% 大行估50亿恒生股息入账补资本
滙 kòng jì xī liào jìn 3 . 3 yuán zēng 1 7 dà háng gū 5 0 yì héng shēng gǔ xī rù zhàng bǔ zī běn
HSBC Holdings' quarterly dividend is expected to be nearly 3.3 yuan, an increase of 17%, and major banks estimate that 5 billion Hang Seng dividends will be recorded to supplement capital
...LACKPINK官方YouTube订户破亿 艺人创举
. . . L A C K P I N K guān fāng Y o u T u b e dìng hù pò yì yì rén chuàng jǔ
... LACKPINK's official YouTube subscribers exceed 100 million Artist initiative
震撼!挖3563克拉紫星彩宝 飙126亿台币
zhèn hàn ! wā 3 5 6 3 kè lā zǐ xīng cǎi bǎo biāo 1 2 6 yì tái bì
Shocking! Digging 3,563 carats of purple star colored treasures soared to NT$12.6 billion
美国向联合国支付1.6亿美元部分欠款,仅为其约20..
měi guó xiàng lián gě guó zhī fù 1 . 6 yì měi yuán bù fēn qiàn kuǎn , jǐn wéi qí yuē 2 0 . .
The United States pays part of its $160 million arrears to the United Nations, only about 20 percent.
计划的总开支为一亿円。
Jìhuà de zǒng kāizhī wèi yī yì yuán.
The total expense for the project amounts to one hundred million yen.
中国的人口已经超过了十三亿。
Zhōngguó de rénkǒu yǐjīng chāoguò le shísān yì.
The population of China has already exceeded 1.3 billion.
世界上的人口60亿左右。
Shìjiè shàng de rénkǒu 60 yì zuǒyòu.
There's around 6 billion people in the world.
四亿人以英语作为他们的第一语言。
Sì yì rén yǐ Yīngyǔ zuòwéi tāmen de dìyī yǔyán.
Four hundred million people speak English as their first language.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 亻 (people) component
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