十亿

十億

shíyì

number #13,593

Meanings

1 one billion; 1,000,000,000
2 giga-

Characters

hundred million

Examples

HSK 2

中国有十四亿人口。

Zhōngguó yǒu shísì yì rénkǒu.

China has a population of 1.4 billion.

Tips

grammar

十亿 = 10 亿 = 10 x 100,000,000 = 1,000,000,000. Chinese uses 亿 (hundred million) as the large unit, so 'one billion' is always expressed as 'ten hundred-millions'.

Stroke Order

十 shí

亿 yì