千亿 (qiān yì) — one hundred billion (10¹¹); hundreds of billions (in informal or approximate usage)
Definition
千亿 (qiān yì) is literally 'a thousand 亿', i.e. 100,000,000,000 — 100 billion in the short scale used in Chinese. Read both characters: qiān (thousand) + yì (100 million).
numeral
one hundred billion (10¹¹)hundreds of billions (in informal or approximate usage)
Examples
- 千亿。Zhè ge xiàng mù de tóu zī gāo dá qiān yì měi yuán.The investment in this project is as high as one hundred billion US dollars.
- 千亿。Yín hé xì lǐ yǒu qiān yì kē héng xīng.There are one hundred billion stars in the Milky Way.
- 千亿。Quán qiú rén kǒu yǐ jiē jìn qiān yì.The global population is approaching one hundred billion.
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