码
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(archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale; number; (computing) code; (clothing) size; yard (unit of length); (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references); (coll.) to pile up; to stack; classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 石 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 碼
- Common rank
- #622
- Unicode
- U+7801
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Formation & memory
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Words with 码
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天星码头 | Star Ferry terminal, Hong Kong | |
| 数码相机 | digital camera | |
| 国家代码 | country code | |
| 电话区码 | area code; telephone dialing code | |
| 数码化 | to digitize | |
| 码长城 | (coll.) to play mahjong | |
| 手机条码 | (Tw) a barcode presented at checkout, used to electronically save the receipt 統一發票|统一发票[to… | |
| 数码通 | SmarTone-Vodafone (Hong Kong and Macau company) | |
| 统一社会信用代码 | unified social credit identifier, the VAT identification number of a business or organizat… | |
| 摩尔斯电码 | Morse code | |
| 单一码 | Unicode; also written 統一碼|统一码 | |
| 字根通用码 | common coding for components of Chinese character; same as Zheng coding 鄭碼|郑码[Zheng4 ma3] | |
| 两码子事 | see 兩碼事|两码事[liang3 ma3 shi4] | |
| 反密码子 | (biochemistry) anticodon | |
| 通用码 | Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding stan… | |
| 数码照相机 | digital camera | |
| 身分证号码 | variant of 身份證號碼|身份证号码[shen1 fen4 zheng4 hao4 ma3]; I.D. number | |
| 国家标准中文交换码 | CNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992 | |
| 密码电报 | coded telegram; ciphered cable | |
| 开放源代码 | see 開放源碼|开放源码[kai1 fang4 yuan2 ma3] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 马 — compare how they read.