亿

亿

See also: 億

亿 U+4EBF, 亿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EBF ← 亾 [U+4EBE] CJK Unified Ideographs 什 → [U+4EC0]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

亿 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 人弓 (ON) or X人弓 (XON), composition ⿰亻乙)

Derived characters

• 𫃝

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 91, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 103, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4EBF

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 億 (意 → 乙)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 亿 – see 億 (“hundred million; hundred thousand; etc.”). (This character, 亿, is the simplified form of 億.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		亿

From 亻 (denoting one octave higher in Kunqu) + 乙 (yǐ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐ (yi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǐ
    • Wade–Giles: i³
    • Yale: yǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yii
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i²¹⁴/

Definitions

亿

1. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note high ti (7̇).

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		亿

From 亻 (denoting one octave lower in Cantonese opera) + 乙 (ji¹, ji⁶).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹, ji⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji¹, ji⁶
    • Yale: yī, yih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹, ji⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹, yi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/, /jiː²²/

Definitions

亿

1. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note an octave below low ti (7̣̣).

   Synonym: 𪛙 (yī) (Kunqu)