亿

億

yì

number HSK 2 #3,216

Meanings

1 100 million

Characters

hundred million

Examples

中国有十四亿人口。

Zhōngguó yǒu shísì yì rénkǒu.

China has 1.4 billion people.

这个项目花了两亿。

Zhège xiàngmù huā le liǎng yì.

This project cost 200 million.

全世界有八十亿人。

Quán shìjiè yǒu bāshí yì rén.

There are 8 billion people in the world.

Tips

mistakes

Chinese counting goes: 万 (10,000) → 亿 (100,000,000). There is no single word for 'million' — it's 百万 (100 万).

usage

十亿 = 1 billion. Chinese groups numbers by 万 (10K), not by thousands like English.

Stroke Order

亿 yì