漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
億: hundred million, 10**8
JLPT N215 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 意 gives the sound
15 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
オクoku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 一億いちおく100,000,000
- 億万長者おくまんちょうじゃbillionaire
- 億おくhundred million; 100,000,000; 10^8
- 十億じゅうおく1,000,000,000; billion
- 百億ひゃくおく10,000,000,000; ten billion
- 数億年すうおくねんseveral hundred million years
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Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read オク
4 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side億 hundred million · 亻
vs憶 recollection · 忄In ChineseSimplified 亿 · traditional, as in Japanese · yì
Japan keeps the traditional form 億; mainland China simplifies it to 亿.
- Simplified
- 亿 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 億 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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