度 dù

1. dù noun capacity; degree; a standard; a measure
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '度' 1, pp. 93-94; ABC 'du' bf 1, 2)
2. duó verb to estimate; to calculate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '度' 2, pp. 93-94)
3. dù verb to pass; to transit; to cross; to ferry over; to go beyond
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '度' 3, pp. 93-94; ABC 'dù' v; NCCED '度' 1)
4. dù measure word amount
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: This measured word is most often used for temperature, angles, and other kinds of degree (Kroll 2015 '度' 5, pp. 93-94; ABC 'du' m 1)
5. dù verb to save; to rescue; to liberate; to overcome
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: The origin of this term is to ferry over the sea of suffering to the other shore, Nirvana (Kroll 2015 '度' 4b, pp. 93-94; NCCED '度' 3).
6. dù noun musical or poetic rhythm
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '度' 1a, pp. 93-94)
7. dù noun conduct; bearing
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '度' 5, pp. 93-94)
8. dù measure word a time
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
   Notes: (ABC 'dù' m; NCCED '度' 2)
9. dù verb to spend time; to pass time
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Leisure
   Notes: As in 度假 'take vacation' (ABC 'dù' v 1; NCCED '度' 2)
10. dù measure word kilowatt-hour
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
    Notes: (ABC 'dù' m 2)
11. dù suffix degree
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
    Notes: In this use 度 is a nominalizing suffix, for example, in 尺度 'yardstick'， 速度 'speed', 透明度 'transparency', and 能见度 'visibility' (Sun 2006, loc. 714)

Contained in

• 球面度 steradian
• 全度音 whole tone (musical interval)
• 印度袄(印度襖) Parsee; Parsi
• 光亮度 brightness; luminosity
• 深度尺 depth indicator or gauge
• 压力强度(壓力強度) pressure (as measured)
• 第三季度 third quarter (of financial year)
• 首度 the first time
• 感光度 film speed
• 每年一度 once a year (every year)
• 停板制度 system of circuit breakers; limit up, limit down system
• 地震强度(地震強度) earthquake intensity
• 丈量制度 a measurement system
• 度外 outside the sphere of one's consideration
• 冗长度(冗長度) (level of) redundancy
• 密度计(密度計) density gauge
• 裁度 to weigh up then decide
• 进度表(進度表) timeline; work schedule
• 印度枣(印度棗) blue or green jujube; Chinese green date; ber; Chinee apple; Indian plum; Regi pandu; Indian jujube
• 阔度(闊度) breadth
• 低八度 an octave lower
• 知名度 reputation; profile; familiarity in the public consciousness
• 辐射强度(輻射強度) radiation intensity
• 大幅度 by a wide margin; substantial
• 躔度 the path of the stars
• 辉度(輝度) luminance
• 剃度 to be ordained as a monastic
• 温度梯度(溫度梯度) temperature gradient
• 度日 to pass one's days; to scratch out a difficult, meager existence
• 再度 once more; once again
• 拉伸强度(拉伸強度) tensile strength
• 色度 saturation
• 用度 expense
• 高纬度(高緯度) high latitude
• 解像度 resolution (of images, monitors, scanners etc)
• 最低限度 minimum
• 度姑 to doze off
• 量度 to measure
• 置之度外 to give no thought to; to have no regard for; to disregard
• 刻度盘(刻度盤) dial (e.g. of a radio etc)
• 标度(標度) scale
• 可懂度 intelligibility
• 人口密度 population density
• 几度春风(幾度春風) after the passing of many years
• 春风一度(春風一度) to have sexual intercourse (once)
• 精确度(精確度) accuracy; precision
• 西印度 West Indies (i.e. the Caribbean) ; West India
• 零度 zero degrees

Also contained in

印度支那 、 沙加缅度 、 印度航空公司

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 351
• 卷107下 律曆志三下 Volume 107b Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 350
• 卷107上 律曆志三上 Volume 107a Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 301
• 第三 律曆下 曆法 Volume 93: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Three Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 274
• 卷十三 志第三 歷下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Calendar 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 256
• 卷七十四 志第二十七 律曆七 Volume 74 Treatises 27: Measures and Calendar 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 252
• 卷七十五 志第二十八 律曆八 Volume 75 Treatises 28: Measures and Calendar 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 250
• 卷三十七 志第十三 曆七 Volume 37 Treatises 13: Calendar 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 249
• 卷三十三 志第十三: 曆二 Volume 33 Treatises 13: Calendar 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 236
• 卷三十五 志第十一 曆五 Volume 35 Treatises 11: Calendar 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 223

Collocations

• 中度 (中度) 用器不中度 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 5
• 亲度 (親度) 姑嘗本原之孝子之爲親度者 — Mozi 墨子, 卷四 兼愛下 Book 4 - Universal Love III — count: 5
• 天下度 (天下度) 仁者之為天下度也 — Mozi 墨子, 卷六 節葬下 Book 6 - Simplicity in Funerals III — count: 4
• 度功 (度功) 事以度功 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
• 数度 (數度) 以十有二律為之數度 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 春官宗伯 第三 3. Office of Spring and Minister of Rites — count: 3
• 度人 (度人) 是故君子以義度人 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《表記》 The Record on Example — count: 3
• 以为度 (以為度) 以為度 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 冬官考工記 第六 6. Office of Winter and Inspection Records — count: 3
• 度义 (度義) 同德度義 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 泰誓上 Zhou Shu - Great Declaration I — count: 3
• 度法 (度法) 度法而已矣 — Guanzi 管子, 山權數第七十五 Chapter 75: Methods for Administering Mountain Areas — count: 3
• 不可度 (不可度) 不可度思 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧抑 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yi — count: 3