搜狐 (Sōuhú): Sohu (Chinese web portal and media company)

Meanings

1 Sohu (Chinese web portal and media company)

Characters

搜

Examples

他在搜狐上看新闻。

Tā zài Sōuhú shàng kàn xīnwén.

He reads news on Sohu.

搜狐是中国早期最大的门户网站之一。

Sōuhú shì Zhōngguó zǎoqī zuì dà de ménhù wǎngzhàn zhī yī.

Sohu was one of China's largest early internet portals.

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culture

Founded in 1996 by Charles Zhang (张朝阳) at MIT; listed on NASDAQ in 2000. Alongside 新浪 Sina and 网易 NetEase, it formed the 'big three' portals of China's first internet era. The name plays on 搜 (search) + 狐 (fox) — the animal that sniffs things out.