亿万 yìwàn millions and millions
How to remember 亿万: 亿 hundred million + 万 ten thousand = millions and millions.
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How it is used
- Countless hundreds of millions - a vast, uncountable multitude - 亿万人民 (yìwàn rénmín) hundreds of millions of people.
- Rhetorical rather than an exact figure; 亿 = 100 million, 万 = 10,000, together just meaning 'enormous numbers of'.
- Common in 亿万富翁 (yìwàn fùwēng, billionaire) and grand statements about masses of people.