一亿 (yī yì) — hundred million | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

一亿 (yī yì) means exactly 100,000,000 — 'one hundred million'. In the short scale, 1 亿 = 100 million (not 1 billion); compare with 千万 (10 million) and 十亿 (1 billion).

numeral

hundred million

Examples

一亿。
Zhè ge xiàng mù tóu zī le yī yì měi yuán.
This project invested one hundred million US dollars.
一亿。
yī yì Rén kǒu de chéng shì xū yào hěn duō zī yuán.
A city of one hundred million people needs a lot of resources.
一亿。
Tā de zī chǎn chāo guò yī yì yuán.
His assets exceed one hundred million yuan.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

亿yìhundred million

一 means one and 亿 means hundred million, together they give the number one hundred million.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

一 is drawn as one horizontal stroke, marking the number one.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 億; 亿 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

意

意yì億yì

Same sound today

The traditional form 億 pairs 人 (person) with 意 for its sound; the simplified 亿 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the original pieces.

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