Kanji
N2 15 strokes Grade 4 freq #716

hundred million, 10**8

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

person hito

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

100,000,000; one hundred million
1,000,000,000; billion
several hundred million years
millions and millions
hundred million; 100,000,000
national unity (esp. during wartime)
national confession of Japanese war guilt (1945)
transformation of the population of Japan into idiots (because of television)
all-Japanese-are-middle-class mentality
millions; vast fortune

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

10,000,000,000; ten billion
person who has a fortune of at least one hundred million yen; millionaire
to show unwillingness (to do); to be reluctant (to do)
apartment worth 100 million yen or more; luxury apartment

Example sentences

Steel production is estimated to have reached 100 million tons last year.

How does it happen that you were not eaten up with all those hundreds and trillions of cats?

Now, one and a half billion more human beings can live on the earth's surface, supporting themselves by working for others.

The company's profit amounted to $250 million before tax.