億

おく · oku · JLPT N4 · noun

million

💰 億 = person 亻 + thought 意: a sum so big a person can only think it

Sound hook: oku is like the start of oku-man, the Japanese word for a hundred-million-yen luxury flat. 一億 (ichi-oku) is 100,000,000, the next named unit after 万 (ten thousand): 10,000 × 10,000.

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