おく
Meanings
Numeric
1. hundred million; 100,000,000; 10^8
The world's population has passed eight billion.
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
belch; eructation; burp
100,000,000; one hundred million; 10^8
10,000,000,000; ten billion
Examples (30 in total)
There are about 6 billion people in the world.
One billion people speak English.
There are billions of stars in the sky.
It was a unit larger than a hundred million.
Our company has annual sales of a billion yen.
There are more than six billion people in the world.
The earth came into existence about five thousand million years ago.
The world's population recently passed 7 billion.
A Japanese businessman bought the artwork for 200 million yen.
Steel production reached an estimated 100 million tons last year.
I sent about 2.2 billion spam emails over a period of around one and a half years.
The company incurred a deficit of $400 million during the first quarter.
And then he came into several hundred million yen.
He casually turned down an offer of a hundred million.
The human body is composed of billions of small cells.
The company suffered a loss of one billion yen last year.
I don't know whether it's hundreds of millions of years in the future or trillions of years in the future.
What would you do if you won three hundred million yen in the lottery?
The company announced a profit of $200 million after tax.
Foreign direct investments in China amounted to $3 billion last year.
Four hundred million people speak English as their first language.
The company's profit amounted to $250 million before tax.
Well, at current market prices, I'd say about three hundred million yen.
Japan's exports to the entire world topped $314 billion in 1998.
The plan announced Tuesday calls for $54 billion in tax cuts.
The generous dentist contributed some two billion yen to charity.
Japan guaranteed a 2 billion yen aid package to developing countries.
According to a survey, 1 billion people are suffering from poverty in the world.
For the other 600 million people, English is either a second language or a foreign language.
In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.