Four, Five, ... Ten and Baidu

As I promised a couple of days ago, I am going to put number four to number ten on my blog. So here you go:



From left to right:
1. Pronunciation: /si/ Meaning: Four
2. Pronunciation: /wu/ Meaning: Five
3. Pronunciation: /lyou/ Meaning: Six
4. Pronunciation: /chi/ Meaning: Seven
5. Pronunciation: /ba:/ Meaning: Eight
6. Pronunciation: /jeo/ Meaning: Nine
7. Pronunciation: /shi/ Meaning: Ten

And the biggest news this week in search engine area (or even IT area) would be Baidu went public and its stock price doubled (or tripled) at the end of the first day. Baidu's name is picked from a very famous sentence of a Chinese poem by a great poet - Xin Qiji(1140 A.D.—1207 A.D.) (辛弃疾) who lived in Song dynasty. The name has two characters: Bai and Du.

Bai means hundred; Du means times
A hundred times? What does that mean? I said it was picked from a sentence in a poem. That sentence is saying that a guy has been searching for a girl thousands of hundreds of times, still can't find her; but when he turns his head, her dream girl is standing right there. Make sense?