几十亿

幾十億

jǐshíyì

number #18,153

Meanings

1 billions
2 several billion

Characters

several; how many

hundred million

Examples

HSK 3

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.

HSK 4

这个项目花了几十亿。

Zhè gè 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