数十亿

數十億

shùshíyì

number #18,764

Meanings

1 billions
2 several billion

Characters

hundred million

Examples

这个项目耗资数十亿美元。

Zhège xiàngmù hàozī shùshíyì Měiyuán.

This project cost billions of dollars.

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.

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