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.]

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

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

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

to search on Baidu