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CHINESE CHARACTER

yì

亿

亿

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hundred million

Numbered pinyin
yi4
English meanings
det.: hundred million

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BUILDING BLOCKS

Structure & components

Left–right structure

Left–right arrangement: left 亻; right 乙.

Meaning & sound clues

亻 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “people”.

乙 is identified as the sound component (yǐ). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 亿.

This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.

Decomposition reference

⿰亻乙

Source: Make Me a Hanzi (LGPL-3.0-or-later)
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Homophones

Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.

Example sentences

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  1. 01

    zhè这gè个guójiā国家yǒu有shàng上yì亿rénkǒu人口。

    This country has over a hundred million people.

  2. 02

    yī一yì亿shì是yī一gè个dà大shù数。

    A hundred million is a big number.

  3. 03

    tā他zhēng挣le了yī一yì亿。

    He earned a hundred million.

  4. 04

    wǎngshàng网上gòuwù购物yǒu有shàng上yì亿yònghù用户。

    Online shopping has hundreds of millions of users.

  5. 05

    yì亿yuán元de的jiàzhí价值。

    Worth hundreds of millions.

  6. 06

    jǐ几yì亿niánqián年前。

    Hundreds of millions of years ago.

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