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億

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

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: 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

ChineseEdit

trad. 億
simp. 亿
 
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Glyph originEdit

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
     
Bronze inscriptions
 

b12362

 

b15389

Small seal script
 

s05812

 

s07653

Transcribed ancient scripts
 

L28411

 

L28412

 

L28413

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).
Characters in the same phonetic series (意) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
噫 *qrɯːɡs, *qɯ
譩 *qɯ, *qɯʔ, *qɯl
醷 *qɯʔ, *qɯɡ
意 *qɯɡs
鷾 *qɯɡs
憶 *qɯɡ
億 *qɯɡ
臆 *qɯɡ
繶 *qɯɡ
澺 *qɯɡ
薏 *qɯɡ
檍 *qɯɡ
癔 *qɯɡ

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

PronunciationEdit

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
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
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/

DefinitionsEdit

億

  1. hundred million (100,000,000)
    先定個小目標賺他一個億 [MSC, trad.]
    先定个小目标赚他一个亿 [MSC, simp.]
    From: Wang Jianlin 王健林
    xiān dìng ge xiǎo mùbiāo zhuàn tā yī ge yì [Pinyin]
    first set a small goal: make a hundred million [Chinese yuan]
  2. † hundred thousand (100,000)
  3. many
  4. A surname​.

See alsoEdit

Chinese numbers
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 102 103 104 108 1012
Normal
(小寫／小写) 		〇 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 百 千 萬／万 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

CompoundsEdit

JapaneseEdit

 
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KanjiEdit

億

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

NounEdit

億 (hiragana おく, rōmaji oku)

  1. a hundred million, 108

PronunciationEdit

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
  2. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

億 (eum 억 (eok))

NounEdit

億 • (eok) (hangeul 억)

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

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

億: Hán Nôm readings: ức

NounEdit

億

  1. Hán tự form of ức (“a hundred million, 108”).
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