おく
Meanings
Numeric
1. 10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (10 in total)
100,000,000; one hundred million
10,000,000,000; ten billion
1,000,000,000; billion
100,000,000,000; hundred billion; many
the people; multitude; masses
eternity; paradise
troublesome; bothersome; tiresome; annoying
millions and millions
several hundred million years
apartment worth 100 million yen or more; luxury apartment
Examples (22 in total)
There are billions of stars in the sky.
Steel production reached an estimated 100 million tons last year.
The human body is composed of billions of small cells.