亿
yì · HSK 2
hundred million
💯 亿 = 人 (person) + 乙 (yǐ, phonetic) — a number so big it takes a person to count
亿 means hundred million (10^8). The left radical 亻is 'person' and the right 乙 carries the sound 'yǐ' → 'yì'. In modern Chinese, 亿 is the standard unit above 万 (ten thousand): 一亿 = 100,000,000.
亿 — person radical 亻 + 乙 (yǐ)
Originally written 億, a semantic-phonetic compound with 亻 (person) for meaning and 意 for sound, referring to a very large number. The simplified form 亿 keeps 亻 and replaces the phonetic with 乙. It now means 'hundred million'.