Illustration: Inside a Japanese bank's secure counting room, two employees finish arranging a hundred-million-yen shipment made from ten thousand ten-thousand-yen banknotes. The cash forms ten shallow trays, each holding ten identical paper-banded bundles of one hundred notes, with note faces too small to read.

JLPT N4numeralLevel estimated by Bebop

億おく

oku

one hundred million

Example sentences

  1. １０億おく人にんの人ひとたちが英語えいごを話はなしています。

    One billion people speak English.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 日本にっぽんの人口じんこうは約やく1億おく2000万人まんにんです。

    The population of Japan is about 120 million.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 空そらには何十なんじゅう億おくもの星ほしがある。

    There are billions of stars in the sky.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 億

  • 億hundred million; 10**8Onオク

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