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亿

yì

HSK 2 · word 1138 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

中国有超过十亿人口。

zhōng guó yǒu chāo guò shí yì rén kǒu

More than a billion people live in China.

The character 亿

亿 is 亻 beside 乙: a hundred million, the step above 万. A billion is 十亿, ten hundred-millions, so large numbers have to be regrouped on the way into English.

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