億

See also: 亿
億 U+5104, 億
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5104
← 儃
[U+5103]
CJK Unified Ideographs 儅 →
[U+5105]

Translingual

Han character

億 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人卜廿心 (OYTP), four-corner 20236, composition ⿰亻意)

Derived characters

  • 𨯑, 𬟆

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 118, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1178
  • Dae Jaweon: page 252, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 227, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5104

Chinese

trad. 億
simp. 亿*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 億
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts




References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qɯɡ) : semantic 人 + phonetic 意 (OC *qɯɡs).

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 億
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 職 (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於力切
Baxter 'ik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔik̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔiək̚/
Wang
Li
/ĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jik1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 億
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yì
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔik ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔ(r)ək/
English 100000

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 億
Reading # 1/1
No. 15157
Phonetic
component
意
Rime
group
職
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
憶
Old
Chinese
/*qɯɡ/

Definitions

億

  1. hundred million (100,000,000) (sometimes written as 1,0000,0000)
  2. † hundred thousand (100,000)
  3. † peaceful; stable
  4. † brimming; plentiful; abundant
  5. † Alternative form of 臆 (yì, “chest”)
  6. † Alternative form of 臆 (yì, “to guess; to estimate; to surmise”)
  7. a surname

See also

Chinese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 102 103 104 106 108 1012
Normal
(小寫/小写)
〇, 零, 空 一, 蜀 二, 兩/两 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 百 千 萬/万,
十千 (Malaysia, Singapore)
百萬/百万,
桶(Philippines),
面桶 (Philippines)
億/亿 兆 (Taiwan)
萬億/万亿 (Mainland China)
Financial
(大寫/大写)
零 壹 貳/贰 參/叁 肆 伍 陸/陆 柒 捌 玖 拾 佰 仟

Compounds

  • 不億/不亿
  • 供億/供亿
  • 億丈/亿丈
  • 億中/亿中
  • 億事/亿事
  • 億仞/亿仞
  • 億代/亿代
  • 億億/亿亿
  • 億兆/亿兆 (yìzhào)
  • 億出/亿出
  • 億劫/亿劫
  • 億千/亿千
  • 億品/亿品
  • 億垓/亿垓
  • 億姓/亿姓
  • 億寧/亿宁
  • 億年/亿年
  • 億度/亿度
  • 億庶/亿庶
  • 億康/亿康
  • 億庾/亿庾
  • 億廩/亿廪
  • 億忌/亿忌
  • 億恨/亿恨
  • 億探/亿探
  • 億昌/亿昌
  • 億測/亿测
  • 億盈/亿盈
  • 億眾/亿众
  • 億祀/亿祀
  • 億福/亿福
  • 億萬/亿万 (yìwàn)
  • 億萬斯年/亿万斯年
  • 億計/亿计
  • 億變/亿变
  • 億負/亿负
  • 億載/亿载
  • 億載金城/亿载金城
  • 億辛萬苦/亿辛万苦
  • 億逆/亿逆
  • 億逞/亿逞
  • 億醜/亿丑
  • 億類/亿类
  • 億齡/亿龄
  • 兆億/兆亿
  • 八十億劫/八十亿劫
  • 共億/共亿
  • 千億/千亿 (qiānyì)
  • 巨億/巨亿
  • 庾億/庾亿
  • 心億/心亿
  • 愊億/愊亿
  • 憑億/凭亿
  • 百億/百亿
  • 積億/积亿
  • 綏億/绥亿
  • 詭億/诡亿
  • 逆億/逆亿
  • 鉅億/巨亿
  • 餉億/饷亿
  • 麗億/丽亿

Japanese

Kanji

億

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
億
おく
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

億(おく) • (oku) 

  1. a hundred million, 108

Derived terms

References

  1. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 億 (MC 'ik).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 億 (eumhun 억 억 (eok eok))

  1. Hanja form? of 억 (“a hundred million, 108”).

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

億: Hán Việt readings: ức
億: Nôm readings: tỉ, ức

Noun

億

  1. chữ Hán form of ức (“a hundred thousand”).
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