一百亿 (yī bǎi) — ten billion (10,000,000,000)
Definition
一百亿 is 'one hundred yì' = 10,000,000,000 (ten billion in English). Note: yì (10⁸) is a Chinese counting unit, not the English 'hundred million' — careful with translation.
numeral
ten billion (10,000,000,000)
Examples
- 一百亿。Zhōng guó zhèng fǔ bō chū le yī bǎi yuán yòng yú jī chǔ shè shī jiàn shè.The Chinese government allocated ten billion yuan for infrastructure construction.
- 一百亿。Zhè jiā gōng sī de shì zhí yǐ jīng chāo guò yī bǎi.This company's market value has already exceeded ten billion.
- ,。Quán qiú rén kǒu jiē jìn bā shí yī yī bǎi, dàn zhēn zhèng fù yù de rén hěn shǎo.The global population is close to 8.1 billion, but truly wealthy people are very few.
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