Baidu

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/baɪˈduː/

proper noun

A mainland China search engine owned by the company of the same name.

UncommonScrabble 8

Meanings

proper noun
  1. computingA mainland China search engine owned by the company of the same name.

    Most of us spend a lot of time using search engines. And the ones we summon most often are Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing, at least in the United States. If you're in China, chances are you search using Baidu.

    2014, Edward C. Baig, Bob LeVitus, iPad mini For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 80
verbBaidu (third-person singular simple present Baidus, present participle Baiduing, simple past and past participle Baidued)

present singular third person Baidus · participle present Baiduing · participle past Baidued · past Baidued

  1. transitiveuncommonTo search for (something) on the Internet using the Baidu search engine.

    P.S, did some baiduing, found your cool dictator book

    2014 July 11, fjrp2, “Car destroyed by ukrainian artillery.”, in alt.politics.international (Usenet)
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    To ground my assumption in facts, I “googled” and “baidued” the major Baidu events in 2008 and 2009.

    2011, Xiaoli Li, 期待ing: From Globalization to Glocalization (dissertation), Clemson University, page 105

    This generally involves students reading the text for the main idea of the text, consulting print dictionary or online dictionary or Googling /Baiduing (one of the most popular searching engine in China) for difficult words, phrases, expression and sentence structure and figure out how they should be used properly if they can’t find satisfying answers from their print dictionaries.

    2012, Chen Yan, Jiang Yuhong, “Integration of ICTs into subject teaching in pre-service English teacher education”, in 2012 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), IEEE, →DOI, →ISBN

    From May 6, 2014 I read online English news by Googling news of “Alibaba IPO.” Simultaneously, I read online Chinese news by Baiduing news of “Alibaba IPO.”

    2016, Shuwen Li, Ethos as Dwelling: The Construction of Corporate Ethos in an IPO (dissertation), University of Minnesota, page 61

    When I baidued the keywords “剩女/leftover women” and “新华网/Xinhua.net,” a website sponsored by the Chinese government on June 11, 2019, at 11:30a.m., I found numerous reports on the leftover women on the Xinhua net.

    2019, Wenjing Liu, The Implications of Science and Technology for Chinese Women (dissertation), Michigan Technological University, →DOI, pages 108–109

Origin

  1. Mandarin百度
  2. EnglishBaidu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 百度
  • 百度 (baak³ dou⁶)search engine
Chinese Mandarin 百度
  • 百度 (Bǎidù)search engine
Japanese 百度
  • 百度 (Hyakudo)search engine
Korean 바이두
  • 바이두 (Baidu)search engine
Vietnamese Bách Độ, Baidu
  • Bách Độsearch engine
  • Baidusearch engine

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Cite this entry
APA

Baidu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Baidu

MLA

“Baidu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Baidu. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Baidu,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Baidu.

Source: Baidu on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.