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.
その会社は十億円の資金を調達した。
The company raised one billion yen in funding.
十億は一億の十倍です。
One billion is ten times one hundred million.
兆 is the next Japanese number unit up, equal to 1,000,000,000,000, or one thousand times 十億.
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.