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億万長者 (okumanchouja) Japanese meaning: billionaire | Kotomora

億おく万まん長ちょう者じゃ

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Meanings

1

billionaire; multimillionaire; very rich person

Refers to an extremely wealthy person, often with assets in the billions or hundreds of millions. Can be used literally or hyperbolically.

彼かれは若わかくして億おく万まん長ちょう者

じゃ

に

なっ

た

。

He became a billionaire at a young age.

宝たからくじで億おく万まん長ちょう者じゃになる夢ゆめを見みる。

I dream of becoming a multimillionaire through the lottery.

Kanji

億hundred million, 10**8
万ten thousand, 10,000
長long, leader, superior
者someone, person

Related words

富ふ豪ごうN1
億万長者 specifically evokes a millionaire/billionaire figure often tied to Western wealth imagery, whereas 富豪 is a more general term for a wealthy person.
成なり金きん
億万長者 simply means a multimillionaire without any negative connotation, unlike the disparaging 成金.

Built from

億おく万まん+長ちょう者じゃ

Etymology

Compound of 億万 (okuman, 'hundreds of millions') and 長者 (chōja, 'wealthy person'). The term has been used since at least the Edo period to describe extremely rich individuals.