几亿

幾億
jǐyì
phrase #27,511

Meanings

  1. 1 several hundred million
  2. 2 hundreds of millions

Examples

Zhèbù diànyǐng de piàofáng tūpò le jǐyì yuán.
This film's box office exceeded several hundred million yuan.
Quánqiú yǒu jǐyì rén zài shǐyòng zhè kuǎn yìngyòng.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world are using this app.

Tips

grammar
(jǐ) means 'several' or 'how many'. 亿 (yì) is 100 million. So 几亿 = 'several hundred million.' Chinese numbers scale in units of (10,000) and 亿 (100,000,000), which can be confusing when converting to English billions.

Stroke Order

亿