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代码 (dài mǎ): meaning and stroke order

代码 (dài mǎ) means code.

代码

Simplified
代码
Traditional
代碼
Pinyin
dài mǎ

Stroke order of 代码

代

  • dài to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

码

  • mǎ (archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 碼

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 代码

  1. dài mǎ Traditional 代碼
    • code

Radicals of the characters

代
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 弋 on the right
码
Radical 石 (Kangxi radical 112) · 8 strokes · 石 on the left, 马 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

代码 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 十年前，苗立和大学室友钟远在出租屋里写下了第一行代码，两人约定：这家公司永远是“我们的”。

    shí nián qián Miáo Lì hé dàxué shìyǒu Zhōng Yuǎn zài chūzūwū lǐ xiě xià le dì-yī háng dàimǎ liǎng rén yuēdìng zhè jiā gōngsī yǒngyuǎn shì wǒmen de

    Ten years earlier, Miao Li and his university roommate Zhong Yuan wrote their first line of code in a rented room and made a pact: this company would always be "ours".

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 代码

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).