億ション
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term |
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| 億 |
| おく Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi |
Etymology
[edit]億 (oku, “one hundred million”) + マンション (manshon, “apartment”), replacing マン (man, homophone of 万 "10,000") with 億. Ordinary apartments have rents in the order of tens of thousands of yen, but a luxury apartment may have much higher rents, so the "ten thousand" is replaced with "one hundred million" since only someone with hundreds of millions of yen could afford one.