数十亿

數十億

shùshíyì

number #18,764

Meanings

1 billions
2 several billion

Characters

hundred million

Examples

HSK 3

全球有数十亿人使用互联网。

Quánqiú yǒu shùshíyì rén shǐyòng hùliánwǎng.

Billions of people worldwide use the internet.

HSK 7-9

这个项目耗资数十亿美元。

Zhège xiàngmù hàozī shùshíyì měiyuán.

This project cost billions of dollars.

Tips

grammar

数 here means 'several', 十 means 'ten', and 亿 means 'hundred million'. So 数十亿 = several tens of 亿 = several billion. Remember: Chinese 亿 = 100 million, not 1 billion.

Stroke Order

数 shù

十 shí

亿 yì