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十亿

十億
shíyì
numeral #13,593

Meanings

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

Examples

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