Kanji N2

億: hundred million, 10**8

億 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning hundred million, 10**8, written with 15 strokes. It is read オク (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 億 (おく, hundred million) and 数億年 (すうおくねん, several hundred million years).

億

Meanings

  • hundred million
  • 10**8
Strokes15
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#716 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • オク

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 億

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 億おく

    hundred million; 100,000,000; 10^8

    JLPT N4
  • 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

  • 一億いちおく

    100,000,000; one hundred million; 10^8

  • 十億じゅうおく

    1,000,000,000; billion

  • 億万おくまん

    millions and millions

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