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碼
简 码 · 繁 碼Mandarin · pinyin mǎ
Meanings
- (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 bù shì yī mǎ shì "not the same thing")
- (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
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3 · ma3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
maa5
Cantonese word readings for 碼. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- used in 碼瑙／码瑙
- digit; number; code
- size name
- (Cantonese, of clothing in general) size
- yard (unit of length)
- (Cantonese) Classifier for hours (of work).
- (chiefly Cantonese) cleat (metal strip or angled piece used to secure metal components)
- (computing) code
- code, encoding of a Chinese character into the Latin alphabet
- Classifier for things, matter.
- (colloquial) to pile up
- (Mainland China) to type a document
- (colloquial, in varieties that don't use 邁) kilometer per hour
- (Mainland China, colloquial) pixelization; to pixelize
- (Mainland China, Internet slang) to "mark" a piece of web content (by replying to it or (re)posting it) for reading it later
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