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Mythic Mandarin

码 (mǎ): meaning and stroke order

码 (mǎ) means (archaic) agate, (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale, number.

码

Simplified
码
Traditional
碼
Pinyin
mǎ

Stroke order of 码

码

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 码

  1. mǎ Traditional 碼
    • (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)

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 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).