The Chinese word 季度 (jìdù), meaning "quarter" (as in a three-month period of the financial or calendar year), is a logical compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: 季 (jì), which originally means "season" but in modern usage can denote a period or quarter of a year, and 度 (dù), which carries the sense of a "measure", "unit", or "degree". Thus, the term literally translates to a "seasonal measure" or "unit of a season", conceptually specifying a standardized division of the year into four equal parts, each representing one quarter.