baak3 jik1百億百亿
Jyutpingbaak3 jik1
Yalebaak yīk
Definition
Ten billion
colloquialnumbersmoney
How it's used
Numbers in Cantonese often follow the four digit grouping system rather than the Western three digit system, so 百億 is a natural unit of measurement for large financial figures or population statistics. It is frequently used in business news and casual discussions about the wealth of billionaires or the scale of massive infrastructure projects.
Examples
Does this project really need to spend as much as ten billion?
His net worth has already exceeded ten billion.
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Grammar guides
- QuestionsFrom yes or no questions to asking who, what, where, and when. The patterns you need to ask questions naturally in Cantonese.
- ClassifiersCantonese puts a classifier between a number and a noun, and a bare classifier on its own can mean the. Learn the common ones and how to use them.
- ComparisonsHow to say bigger than, the most, the same as, and not as good as. Cantonese uses 過 where Mandarin uses 比, and that catches a lot of learners out.
