碼

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See also: 码
碼 U+78BC, 碼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78BC
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 碽 →

Translingual

Han character

碼 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一口尸手火 (MRSQF), four-corner 11627, composition ⿰石馬)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 833, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24368
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1251, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2446, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+78BC

Chinese

trad. 碼
simp. 码

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (馬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
馬 *mraːʔ
碼 *mraːʔ
罵 *mraːʔ, *mraːs
鷌 *mraːʔ
鰢 *mraːʔ
瑪 *mraːʔ
榪 *mraːs
傌 *mraːs
禡 *mraːs
媽 *maːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mraːʔ) : semantic 石 (“stone; rock”) + phonetic 馬 (OC *mraːʔ).

Etymology

Before Qing dynasty, the character was used in word 碼瑙／码瑙 (Yupian) and 碼頭／码头 (mǎtou) (Stories to Awaken the World), both originally written with 馬／马 (mǎ).

“gambling chip”, “chip for counting” (> “number”), “classifier for things”
Appears in Qing dynasty, also originally written with 馬／马 (mǎ). See 馬／马 (mǎ) for more.
“yard”
Used in 《英吉利国舆情记略》 (1834), probably a derivation of "counting chip" sense which is used for translating English yard.
“kilometer per hour”
Probably a corruption of 邁／迈 (mài) (mile > mile per hour > kilometer per hour).
“pixelization”
Short for 馬賽克／马赛克 (mǎsàikè).
“to reply to a post for reading it later”
From English mark.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bé/bée - colloquial;
  • má - literary;
  • bā - “yard”.
Rime
Character 碼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫下切
Baxter maeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠaX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚaX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/maX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/maɨX/
Li
Rong 		/maX/
Wang
Li 		/maX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/maX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mǎ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		maa5
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 碼
Reading # 1/1
No. 8716
Phonetic
component 		馬
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		馬
Old
Chinese 		/*mraːʔ/
Notes 古作馬

Definitions

碼

  1. † Used in 碼瑙／码瑙.
  2. digit; number; code
    號碼／号码  ―  hàomǎ  ―  number; code; digit
  3. (of shoes) number of size
  4. (Cantonese, of clothing in general) size
  5. yard (unit of length)
  6. (computing) code
    源碼／源码  ―  yuánmǎ  ―  source code
    二維碼／二维码  ―  èrwéimǎ  ―  QR code
    亂碼／乱码  ―  luànmǎ  ―  mojibake
  7. code, encoding of a Chinese character into the Latin alphabet
    電碼／电码  ―  diànmǎ  ―  Chinese telegraph code
    音碼、形碼／音码、形码  ―  yīnmǎ, xíngmǎ  ―  pronunciation-based IME, shape-based IME
    拼音輸入法的重碼率 [MSC, trad.]
    拼音输入法的重码率 [MSC, simp.]
    pīnyīn shūrùfǎ de chóngmǎlǜ
    rate of code overlap for Pinyin IMEs
  8. Classifier for things, matter.
  9. (colloquial) to pile up
  10. (nonstandard) kilometer per hour
  11. (Mainland China, neologism) pixelization
  12. (Mainland China, neologism) to reply to a post for reading it later
  13. (Mainland China, neologism) to type a document

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References

Japanese

Kanji

碼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

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碼 • (ma) (hangeul 마)

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Vietnamese

Han character

碼: Hán Nôm readings: mã

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