one billion; 1,000,000,000
Japanese large numbers group by units of ten thousand; 十億 is literally ten 億, i.e. 1,000,000,000 in English short-scale usage.
The company raised one billion yen in funding.
One billion is ten times one hundred million.
十億 is one billion, one tenth the size of 百億 (ten billion).
Standard kanji spelling for the number 1,000,000,000.
Practical mixed numeral spelling often used in figures, headlines, business, and statistics.
Sino-Japanese numeric compound from 十, 'ten', plus 億, 'hundred million'; together they denote ten hundred-million, or one billion.