百度

Chinese

		hundred	capacity; degree; standard
simp. and trad. (百度)		百	度
Literally: “hundreds of times; hundred degrees”.

Etymology

From "(To the Tune of) 'the Azure Jade Table' – Prime Night" (《青玉案·元夕》) by Xin Qiji (辛棄疾):

眾裡尋他千百度；驀然回首，那人卻在，燈火闌珊處。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]

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众里寻他千百度；蓦然回首，那人却在，灯火阑珊处。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

From: late 12th century, 辛棄疾 (Xin Qiji),《青玉案·元夕》 ("(To the Tune of) 'The Azure Jade Desk' – Prime Night")

Zhònglǐ xún tā qiānbǎi dù; mòrán huíshǒu, nà rén què zài, dēnghuǒ lánshān chù. [Pinyin]

Among the crowd I search for her for hundreds of thousands of times; when – suddenly – I turn my head, right there she is, where the lanterns' lights dim.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bǎidù

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˇ ㄉㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak³ dou⁶
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): bêh⁴ dou⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bǎidù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˇ ㄉㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Bǎidù
    • Wade–Giles: Pai³-tu⁴
    • Yale: Bǎi-dù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Baeduh
    • Palladius: Байду (Bajdu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak³ dou⁶
    • Yale: baak douh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁸ dou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag³ dou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚³ tou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bêh⁴ dou⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: peh tōu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peʔ²⁻⁴ tou¹¹/

Proper noun

百度

1. Baidu (major Chinese search engine)

   百度熱搜榜／百度热搜榜  ―  Bǎidù rèsōubǎng  ―  ranking of popular Baidu searches

Derived terms

• 百度百科

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (百度):

• → Vietnamese: Bách Độ (百度)

→ Vietnamese: Baidu

Verb

百度

1. to search on Baidu