亿万

億萬
yìwàn
number #7,689

Meanings

  1. 1 hundreds of millions; billions
  2. 2 countless; innumerable

Examples

Tā shì yī wèi yìwàn fùwēng.
He is a billionaire.
Yìwàn rénmín de xīnyuàn zhōngyú shíxiàn le.
The wishes of hundreds of millions of people have finally come true.
Zhège xiàngmù huā le yìwàn zījīn.
This project cost billions in funding.

Tips

usage
亿万 literally means '亿 (hundred million) × (ten thousand)' but in practice it's used hyperbolically to mean 'an enormous number' or 'billions'. 亿万富翁 (yìwàn fùwēng) is the standard term for 'billionaire'.

Stroke Order

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wàn