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億

Hundred Million
Stroke count: 15

Readings

On readingオク
JLPT level: N2JōyōGrade 4Level 13

Meanings

  1. hundred millionRtK
  2. 10**8
  1. 100,000,000
  2. 10^8

Homonyms

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Same reading (おく)
置く · to put奥 · inner part

Radicals and components

Radical人person亻variant
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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person (人) · idea · sound · vase · stand up (立) · sun (日) · day (日) · heart (心)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1058

Compound words

一億いちおく
100,000,000; one hundred million
十億じゅうおく
1,000,000,000; billion
数億年すうおくねん
several hundred million years
１００億ひゃくおく
10,000,000,000; ten billion
１億いちおく
100,000,000
億劫おっくう
troublesome
億兆おくちょう
the people
千億せんおく
100,000,000,000
億ションおくション
apartment worth 100 million yen or more
億万長者おくまんちょうじゃ
billionaire
十万億土じゅうまんおくど
eternity
一億総懺悔いちおくそうざんげ
national confession of Japanese war guilt (1945)

Additional Examples

彼は億万長者と言われている。
It is said that he is a billionaire.tatoeba
彼はいくつかのホテルを持っている。一言で言えば彼は億万長者である。
He owns several hotels. In a word, he is a multimillionaire.tatoeba
彼の財産は１億ドルと概算された。
His property was estimated at one hundred million dollars.tatoeba
彼が億万長者であるという事実がなかったならば、彼女は彼と結婚しないだろう。
Were it not for the fact that he is a billionaire, she would never marry him.tatoeba

Stroke Order

15 strokes

Hundred million. 亻 (person) + 意 (thought) — a number you can only imagine.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 億

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