yì
hundred million
Original meaning:
quiet; at rest
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 意 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "quiet; at rest". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 億
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
several billion | ||
100 million | ||
countless | ||
millions and millions | ||
giga- |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔ(r)ək | 'ik | yì | 100,000 |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.4528% of movies
1687th most common character in movies
1057th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5104 |
Shuowen | “億，安也。从人，意聲。” |
Sources
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