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码

Traditional: 碼

mǎ

HSK 3.0 · 7–9

mǎ · maa5 (Jyutping)

  1. (archaic) agate
  2. (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale
  3. number
  4. (computing) code
  5. (clothing) size
  6. yard (unit of length)
  7. (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references)
  8. (coll.) to pile up; to stack
  9. 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")
  10. (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

码

Meaning
number, numerals; yard; symbol
Radical
石
Strokes
8
Components
⿰石马
Cangjie
MRNVM
Four-corner
1762

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