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亿

yì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 5 Character Traditional 億

亿 (yì) means "100 million". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 亿 means

1. 100 million

How 亿 is used in grammar

亿 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• Large Numbers: 千、万、亿 and Approximate Numbers (HSK 2)

Example sentences

• 中国有超过十亿人口。
  More than a billion people live in China.
• 计划的总开支为一亿円。
  Jìhuà de zǒng kāizhī wèi yī yì yuán.
  The total expense for the project amounts to one hundred million yen.
• 天空中有数十亿的星星。
  There are billions of stars in the sky.
• 巴西的居民快数到2亿。
  Brazil has almost 200 million inhabitants.
• 世界上的人口60亿左右。
  There are about 6 billion people in the world.
• 我总是梦想着成为亿万富翁。
  Wǒ zǒngshì mèngxiǎng zhe chéngwéi yìwànfùwēng.
  I always dreamed of being a billionaire.

Words starting with 亿

• 亿万yì wànmillions and millions
• 亿万富翁yì wàn fù wēngbillionaire; multimillionaire
• 亿万富豪yì wàn fù háomultimillionaire

Words containing 亿

• 万亿wàn yìtrillion
• 十亿shí yìone billion; giga-
• 千亿qiān yìmyriads; hundred billion
• 杨亿Yáng YìYang Yi (974-1020), Northern Song dynasty writer and poet
• 十多亿shí duō yìover one billion; more than a billion
• 数十亿shù shí yìseveral billion
• 十亿位元shí yì wèi yuángigabit
• 数以亿计shù yǐ yì jìcountless; innumerable

Characters that look like 亿

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 化huàto make into; to change into; -ization
• 忆yìto recollect; to remember; memory

Sounds the same

Read yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 意(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…
• 议to comment on; to discuss; to suggest
• 易easy; amiable; to change
• 亦also
• 艺skill; art
• 译to translate; to interpret
• 忆to recollect; to remember; memory
• 谊friendship; also pr. yí
• 义justice; righteousness; meaning
• 益benefit; profit; advantage
• 裔(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 异different; other; hetero-

Where 亿 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Numbers, fractions & finance (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.