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Noun: 1. Billion (1,000,000,000): In the modern Vietnamese numbering system, "tỷ" specifically denotes the number one billion (10⁹). This is the standard and most common meaning. 2. Milliard: An older term, equivalent to one billion, used in some historical or international contexts.
- (That company has an annual revenue of ten billion dong.)
- (The population of that country has surpassed one billion people.)
- (In some old documents, the word "tỷ" can be translated as "milliard.")
- "Tỷ lệ": This is a compound word meaning "ratio," "rate," or "proportion." It is a separate lexical item.
- Tỷ lệ thất nghiệp đang giảm. (The unemployment rate is decreasing.)
- "Tỷ trọng": Another compound word meaning "specific gravity" or "proportion (in a structure)."
- Tỷ trọng ngành dịch vụ trong nền kinh tế ngày càng cao. (The proportion of the service sector in the economy is increasingly high.)
- Tỷ số (n): Score (in sports), ratio.
- Tỷ số trận đấu là 2-1. (The match score is 2-1.)
- Tỷ phú (n): Billionaire.
- Anh ấy là một tỷ phú công nghệ. (He is a tech billionaire.)
- Tỷ dụ (n, formal): For example, instance. (A formal or literary synonym for "ví dụ").
- Tỷ ức (n, archaic): An archaic term for one hundred million (100,000,000). Note: In modern usage, one hundred million is "trăm triệu."
- Một nghìn triệu: One thousand million (a descriptive synonym for one billion).
Historically, Vietnamese used two different numbering scales. The modern standard follows the "short scale" (used in the US and most English-speaking countries), where: * Triệu = Million (1,000,000) * Tỷ = Billion (1,000,000,000)
The older "long scale" (used in some European countries) is now largely obsolete in Vietnamese but may appear in older texts. In that system, "tỷ" could sometimes refer to a "milliard" (10⁹), and "triệu triệu" (million million) referred to 10¹². For clarity, the modern meaning of "tỷ" = 1,000,000,000 (billion) is definitive.
- milliard, billion