オク
Meanings
Numeric
1. hundred million; 100,000,000; 10^8
Pitch accent
オ
ク
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
belch; eructation; burp
10,000,000,000; ten billion
apartment worth 100 million yen or more; luxury apartment
Examples (23 in total)
One billion people speak English.
There are billions of stars in the sky.
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.
The human body is composed of billions of small cells.
The company suffered a loss of one billion yen last year.
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.
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.