Chinese symbol for “million”
百万
bǎi wàn
Traditional: 百萬
million
The closest CC-CEDICT match for million is 百万 (bǎi wàn), defined as: million.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “million”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兆 | zhào | (bound form) omen; to foretell |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 百万.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 百姓 | bǎi xìng | common people |
| 百科 | bǎi kē | universal; encyclopedic |
| 百年 | bǎi nián | hundred years; century; (fig.) a whole lifetime; a person's whole life |
| 老百姓 | lǎo bǎi xìng | ordinary people; the "person in the street" |
| 百分点 (百分點) | bǎi fēn diǎn | percentage point |
| 万人 (萬人) | wàn rén | ten thousand people; all the people |
| 千万 (千萬) | qiān wàn | ten million; countless |
| 万岁 (萬歲) | wàn suì | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty |
See also: Japanese symbol for “million”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.