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What 码 means

(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 不是一码事 "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)

Pictophonetic: semantic 石 (stone), phonetic 马

Made of 石 + 马

Words with 码

• 号码hào mǎnumber
• 密码mì mǎcipher; secret code; password; PIN
• 码头mǎ touwharf; dock; quay; pier
• 起码qǐ mǎat the minimum; at the very least
• 代码dài mǎcode
• 筹码chóu mǎbargaining chip; gaming chip; casino token
• 编码biān mǎto code; to encode; code
• 尺码chǐ mǎsize; fitting (of apparel)
• 两码事liǎng mǎ shìtwo things that are fundamentally different from each other; two very different things
• 解码jiě mǎto decode; to decipher
• 价码jià mǎprice tag
• 数码shù mǎnumber; numerals; figures; digital; amount; numerical code

码 in a sentence

• 这张沙发起码可以坐三个人。

  zhè zhāng shā fā qǐ mǎ kě yǐ zuò sān gè rén 。

  This sofa can seat three people easily.

• 电话号码是多少？

  diàn huà hào mǎ shì duō shǎo ？

  What's the number?

• 我们毫不费力地想出了密码。

  wǒ men háo bú fèi lì dì xiǎng chū le mì mǎ 。

  We easily figured out the password.

• 加注释使代码更易读。

  jiā zhù shì shǐ dài mǎ gèng yì dú 。

  Adding comments makes the code easier to read.

• 这个码对我来说太大了。

  zhè ge mǎ duì wǒ lái shuō tài dà le 。

  This size is too large for me.

Characters that sound like 码

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