Japanese

おく
Meaning: hundred million
Part of Speech: Noun

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Handwriting

億

Example sentences

The population of Japan exceeds 100 million.
台風の被害額は1億円に上った。
The damage from the typhoon amounted to 100 million yen.
泥棒は博物館から時価数億円の金剛石を盗み出した。
The thief stole a diamond worth hundreds of millions of yen from the museum.
彼は年俸一億円で契約を更新した。
He renewed his contract with an annual salary of 100 million yen.
経理担当者による数億円の公金の使い込みが発覚した。
An embezzlement of several hundred million yen of public funds by an accounting officer was discovered.
その言語のネイティブ話者は、世界中に何億人もいる。
There are hundreds of millions of native speakers of that language worldwide.

Usage Notes

A unit of number representing 10^8. It follows 'man' (ten thousand) in the Japanese counting system.

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