KanjiJLPT N2
Hundred Million

hundred million, 10**8

Mnemonic

Butler Alfred has an idea so grand his monocle pops off: he'll auction every secret recipe he's perfected over forty years. The bidding war escalates until Alfred walks away with a Hundred Million dollars, still perfectly composed.
Additional thoughts
Picture Alfred standing calmly at a frenzied auction house, his single brilliant idea turning decades of quiet service into an absurd fortune. Person radical (Butler) + Idea stacked together = the staggering sum of Hundred Million.
Quick recall
Butler Alfred's brilliant idea at auction nets him a Hundred Million.

Details

The keyword for 億 is hundred million. This kanji represents the numerical value of 100,000,000, a unit frequently used in East Asian counting systems. In Japanese, it serves as a fundamental large number unit, sitting between ten million and one billion. It appears commonly in contexts involving national budgets, populations, and other large-scale figures.
On'yomi
おく

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