二十亿

二十億

èrshíyì

number #34,812

Meanings

1 two billion (2,000,000,000)

Characters

hundred million

Examples

HSK 5

全世界有二十亿人讲英语。

Quánshìjiè yǒu èrshíyì rén jiǎng Yīngyǔ.

Two billion people worldwide speak English.

HSK 7-9

这部电影的票房超过二十亿。

Zhèbù diànyǐng de piàofáng chāoguò èrshíyì.

This film's box office exceeded two billion.

Tips

grammar

Chinese groups large numbers by 万 (wàn, 10,000) and 亿 (yì, 100,000,000), not by 'thousand'/'million'. So 二十亿 = 20 × 10⁸ = 2 billion. American 'billion' (10⁹) translates as 十亿 (shíyì).

Stroke Order

二 èr

十 shí

亿 yì