亿 yì hundred million
How to remember 亿: 亻 person + 乙 second = hundred million. The person who finishes second on the big quiz show still flies home with a cheque for a hundred million yuan.
Component breakdown
亿 = 亻 person + 乙 second
- 亻 person
- 乙 second
The person who finishes second on the big quiz show still flies home with a cheque for a hundred million yuan.
How it is used
- Numeral for "hundred million" (10^8).
- Chinese groups large numbers by 万 (10^4) and 亿 (10^8), not by thousand/million, so learners must recompute: 一亿 = 100,000,000, and 十亿 = one billion.
- Common in population and finance figures: 十三亿人口 (shísān yì rénkǒu) - 1.3 billion people.