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Hi! Does anyone know a good, colloquial way to express an infinite amount of money in Chinese? For example American kids might say in English. "a gazillion dollars". Thanks in advance for your help!

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I am less than ignorant on this, but I would say 万万, I also wonder if 一笔钱 would be ok for what You want.:roll:

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Here's one you could still use from Classical Chinese:

数之不尽 = [There's so much], it's a never-ending count (of the money).

Cautionary tale: Never use 万万 alone, for it means "Don't use because it will cause some kind of danger".

You could use it if you're counting money along with the currency. In ths case, 万万 (insert currency: dollars, euros, pounds, lira, krone, drakhma, pesos, yuan, yen, won, rupee, dinars, etc...) could mean

"10000* 10000" = 100,000,000 in the currency mentioned above.

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万万 = 亿

To answer the original question, I've not run into this myself but to me both "一万亿" and "一千亿" have a nice ring to them. Though not quite a gazillion, the former is one trillion which should be large enough to get your point across? If not, you could try searching some classical texts and see what's used there.

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