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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)
How 码 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
石 (semantic, “stone”) + 马 (phonetic, mǎ)
How to remember it
numeral · Heisig RSH #2893
石 stone + 马 horse
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 马
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 马 (mǎ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马 sound component | mǎ | horse; surname |
| 玛 | mǎ | agate, cornelian |
| 骂 | mà | to accuse, to blame, to curse, to scold |
| 妈 | mā | mother, mama |
| 蚂 | mǎ | ant; leech |
| 吗 | ma | final interrogative particle |
| 犸 | mǎ | mammoth |
| 杩 | mà | headboard |
Words containing 码
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天星码头 | Tiān xīng mǎ tóu | Star Ferry terminal, Hong Kong |
| 数码相机 | shù mǎ xiàng jī | digital camera |
| 国家代码 | guó jiā dài mǎ | country code |
| 电话区码 | diàn huà qū mǎ | area code; telephone dialing code |
| 数码化 | shù mǎ huà | to digitize |
| 码长城 | mǎ Cháng chéng | (coll.) to play mahjong |
| 手机条码 | shǒu jī tiáo mǎ | (Tw) a barcode presented at checkout, used to electronically save the receipt 統一發票|统一发票[to… |
| 数码通 | Shù mǎ tōng | SmarTone-Vodafone (Hong Kong and Macau company) |
| 统一社会信用代码 | tǒng yī shè huì xìn yòng dài mǎ | unified social credit identifier, the VAT identification number of a business or organizat… |
| 摩尔斯电码 | Mó ěr sī diàn mǎ | Morse code |
| 单一码 | dān yī mǎ | Unicode; also written 統一碼|统一码 |
| 字根通用码 | zì gēn tōng yòng mǎ | common coding for components of Chinese character; same as Zheng coding 鄭碼|郑码[Zheng4 ma3] |
| 两码子事 | liǎng mǎ zi shì | see 兩碼事|两码事[liang3 ma3 shi4] |
| 反密码子 | fǎn mì mǎ zi | (biochemistry) anticodon |
| 通用码 | Tōng yòng mǎ | Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding stan… |
| 数码照相机 | shù mǎ zhào xiàng jī | digital camera |
| 身分证号码 | shēn fèn zhèng hào mǎ | 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 | guó jiā biāo zhǔn Zhōng wén jiāo huàn mǎ | CNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992 |
| 密码电报 | mì mǎ diàn bào | coded telegram; ciphered cable |
| 开放源代码 | kāi fàng yuán dài mǎ | see 開放源碼|开放源码[kai1 fang4 yuan2 ma3] |