几十亿

幾十億

jǐshíyì

number #18,153

Meanings

1 billions
2 several billion

Characters

several; how many

hundred million

Examples

全球有几十亿人使用互联网。

Quánqiú yǒu jǐshíyì rén shǐyòng hùliánwǎng.

Billions of people around the world use the internet.

这个项目花了几十亿。

Zhège xiàngmù huā le jǐshíyì.

This project cost several billion.

Tips

grammar

Chinese uses 亿 (100 million) as a counting unit, so 几十亿 literally means 'several tens of 亿' = several billion. This is a common source of confusion for English speakers.

Stroke Order

几 jǐ

十 shí

亿 yì