1. 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. 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. 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. 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. noun musical or poetic rhythm
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '度' 1a, pp. 93-94)
  7. noun conduct; bearing
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '度' 5, pp. 93-94)
  8. measure word a time
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
    Notes: (ABC 'dù' m; NCCED '度' 2)
  9. 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. measure word kilowatt-hour
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
    Notes: (ABC 'dù' m 2)
  11. 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)
  12. noun pāramitā; perfection
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: pāramitā, Pali: pāramī; Japanese: do, or: taku a pāramitā is the perfection or culmination of certain virtues. In the Mahāyāna tradition a pāramitā is a virtue practiced by a bodhisattva on the path to enlightenment. Another explanation is reaching the other shore The word is derived from the Sanskrit parama 'highest' or 'supreme'. The most common enumeration in the Mahāyāna tradition is 六度 'six pāramitās' and the most common in the Theravāda tradition is the ten pāramīs. The Mahāyāna tradition also extends the six pāramitās to ten 十波羅蜜, although they are different from the Theravāda list (BCSD '度', p. 427; BL 'pāramitā', p. 624; Shambhala 'pāramitā'; FGDB '波羅蜜'; JEBD 'Do', p. 50; Kroll 2015 '度' 4c).
  13. noun ordination
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '度' 4a, pp. 93-94)
  14. verb liberate; ferry; mokṣa
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: mokṣa, or: pramokṣa; as in 度脫 (BCSD '度', pp. 427-428; MW 'mokṣa'; SH '度', p. 310)

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