Chinese numerals (兆, 京, 垓, 秭, 穰) and smaller Chinese numerals (微, 纖, 沙, 塵, 渺) were defined as translations for the SI prefixes as "mega", "giga", "tera", "peta", "exa", "micro", "nano", "pico", "femto", "atto", resulting in the creation of yet more values for each numeral. The Republic of China (Taiwan) defined 百萬 as the translation for "mega". This translation is widely used in official documents, academic communities, informational industries, etc. However, the civil broadcasting industries sometimes use 兆赫 to represent "megahertz". Today, the governments of both China and Taiwan use phonetic transliterations for the SI prefixes. However, the governments have each
Orders of magnitude (numbers) kilo- (k) (; one hundred thousand or a lakh). ISO: mega- (M) ISO: giga- (G) ISO: tera- (T) ISO: peta- (P) ISO: exa- (E) ISO: zetta- (Z) ISO: yotta- (Y) Orders of magnitude (numbers) This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantity and probabilities. Each number is given a name in the short scale, which is used in English-speaking countries, as well as a name in the long scale, which is used in some of the countries that do not have English as their national language. ISO: yocto- (y) ISO: zepto- (z) ISO: