BBC:中国的全民热词“duang”

BBC:Mil ions share new Chinese character

最近大热的＂duang＂是一个在汉语字典中并不存在的新词,不过这个字甫一出现就以燎原之势在中国的网络上迅速传播开来。这个字在中国的社交网站微博中出现了8亿多次。有1.5万名用户使用了它,并引发了31.2万次讨论。在中国最大的在线搜索网站百度,这个字的搜索量达60万余次,该现象同样引发了西方媒体的关注．

The character ＂duang＂ is so new that it does not even ex- ist in the Chinese dictionary. But it has already spread like wildfire online in China, appearing more than 8 mil- lion times on China＇s micro-blogging site Weibo, where it spawned a top-trending hashtag that drew 312,000 dis- cussions among 15,000 users. On China＇s biggest online search engine Baidu, it has been looked up almost 600,000 times.