四千万

四千萬
sìqiānwàn
number #32,372

Meanings

  1. 1 forty million (4 × 10,000,000)

Examples

Zhè jiā gōngsī qùnián de shōurù chāoguò sìqiānwàn yuán.
This company's revenue last year exceeded 40 million yuan.
Zhōngguó yǒu sìqiānwàn zuǒyòu de rénkǒu shēnghuó zài piānyuǎn dìqū.
Around 40 million people in China live in remote regions.

Tips

mistakes
Chinese counts in (10,000) and 亿 (100,000,000), not in millions. 四千万 = 4,000 × 10,000 = 40 million, NOT 4 million. The trap: Chinese-to-English conversion almost always trips over a factor of 10, since 'million' has no native Chinese unit.

Stroke Order

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