亿
100 million
3 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,139 U+4EBF
How 亿 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 (semantic, “people”) + 乙 (phonetic, yǐ)
How to remember it
one hundred million · Heisig RSH #2066
人 person + fishhook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 乙
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 乙 (yǐ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乙 sound component | yǐ | second; 2nd heavenly stem |
| 艺 | yì | art; talent, ability; craft |
| 忆 | yì | to remember, to reflect upon; memory |
| 虱 | shī | bug, louse, parasite |
| 穵 | wā | a deep hollow; to dig out, to gouge |
| 钇 | yǐ | yttrium |
Words containing 亿
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 数以亿计 | shù yǐ yì jì | countless; innumerable |
| 数十亿 | shù shí yì | several billion |
| 十多亿 | shí duō yì | over one billion; more than a billion |
| 亿万富豪 | yì wàn fù háo | multimillionaire |
| 亿万富翁 | yì wàn fù wēng | billionaire; multimillionaire |
| 亿万 | yì wàn | millions and millions |
| 万亿 | wàn yì | trillion |
| 十亿 | shí yì | one billion; giga- |
| 千亿 | qiān yì | myriads; hundred billion |
| 杨亿 | Yáng Yì | Yang Yi (974-1020), Northern Song dynasty writer and poet |