HSK 2 · Shopping & money

亿

yì

hundred million

Stroke order of 亿

亿 is written with 3 strokes. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

Memory trick

A person 亻 beside 乙 a bent hook: a huge crowd bending in line, a hundred million.

Parts: 亻 person + 乙 hook

Example sentence

中国有十四亿人。

China has 1.4 billion people.

More words: Shopping & money

卖to sell 便宜cheap 收入income 角jiao (1/10 yuan); angle 千thousand 万ten thousand 公斤kilogram 斤jin (half a kilogram)千克kilogram 克gram 公里kilometre 租to rent 打工to do odd jobs; to work part-time

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