亿
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100 million
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
one hundred million · Heisig RSH #2066
人 person + fishhook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 亿
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 数以亿计 | countless; innumerable | |
| 数十亿 | several billion | |
| 十多亿 | over one billion; more than a billion | |
| 亿万富豪 | multimillionaire | |
| 亿万富翁 | billionaire; multimillionaire | |
| 亿万 | millions and millions | |
| 万亿 | trillion | |
| 十亿 | one billion; giga- | |
| 千亿 | myriads; hundred billion | |
| 杨亿 | Yang Yi (974-1020), Northern Song dynasty writer and poet |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 乙 — compare how they read.