HSK 5 · Objects

亿 yì “100 million” in Chinese

Traditional 億

What 亿 means

  1. 100 million

How to say 亿

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale亿yì4th tone, falling

亿 in a sentence

  1. 中国的人口已经超过了十三亿。

    Zhōngguó de rénkǒu yǐjīng chāoguò le shísān yì.

    China’s population has already passed 1.3 billion.

    Sentence #717310 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 银河系大约由一千亿颗恒星组成。

    Yínhéxì dàyuē yóu yìqiān yì kē héngxīng zǔchéng.

    The Milky Way is made up of about a hundred billion stars.

    Sentence #14023303 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 四亿人以英语作为他们的第一语言。

    Sì yì rén yǐ Yīngyǔ zuòwéi tāmen de dìyī yǔyán.

    Four hundred million people speak English as their first language.

    Sentence #811541 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 亿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 亿 (yì) with each of its parts in a different colour
亿yì100 million
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 乙second (cyclical) · yǐSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 乙 (yǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with yì.

How to write 亿

亿 3 strokes

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亿 (yì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 亿 (yì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 亿

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FAQs

亿 (yì) means “100 million”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yì: yì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 亿 is written 億. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 亿 from the suggestions. Typing yi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
亿 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.