十じゅう億おく

numeric

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.

• その会かい社しゃは十じゅう億おく円えんの資し金きんを調ちょう達たつした。

  The company raised one billion yen in funding.

• 十じゅう億おくは一いち億おくの十じゅう倍ばいです。

  One billion is ten times one hundred million.