barcode

See also: bar code

English

Alternative forms

bar code

Etymology

Compound of bar +‎ code. First attested in 1963 for sense 1.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.kəʊd/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹ.koʊd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kəʊd
Hyphenation: bar‧code

Noun

barcode (plural barcodes)

Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology.
(genetics) A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species.
(self-harm, slang) An instance of self-harm, typically with multiple parallel cuts along a line, similar in form to a machine barcode.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Afrikaans: staafkode (calque)
→ Dutch: barcode
→ Dutch: streepjescode (calque)
- → Afrikaans: strepieskode (calque)

Translations

set of machine-readable parallel bars

Afrikaans: strepieskode, staafkode
Albanian: barkodi
Arabic: شِفْرَة خَيْطِيَّة f (šifra ḵayṭiyya)
Azerbaijani: barkod
Basque: barra-kode
Bulgarian: ба́ркод m (bárkod)
Catalan: codi de barres
Chinese:
Cantonese: 條碼 / 条码 (tiu⁴ maa⁵)

Mandarin: 條形碼 / 条形码 (zh) (tiáoxíngmǎ), 條碼 / 条码 (zh) (tiáomǎ)
Czech: čárový kód (cs)
Danish: stregkode (da)
Dutch: streepjescode (nl) f, barcode (nl) f
Esperanto: strikodo, strekkodo
Estonian: vöötkood
Finnish: viivakoodi (fi)
French: code-barres (fr) m, code à barres (fr) m
Georgian: შტრიხ-კოდი (šṭrix-ḳodi), შტრიხკოდი (šṭrixḳodi), შტრიხული კოდი (šṭrixuli ḳodi)
German: Strichcode (de) m, Balkencode m, Barcode (de) m
Greek: γραμμοκωδικός m (grammokodikós)
Hebrew: ברקוד (he)
Hindi: बारकोड (bārkoḍ)
Hungarian: vonalkód (hu)
Icelandic: strikamerki n
Italian: codice a barre m
Japanese: バーコード (ja) (bākōdo)
Kazakh: сызықшалы код (syzyqşaly kod)
Korean: 바코드 (bakodeu)
Latvian: svītrkods
Lithuanian: brūkšninis kodas
Macedonian: баркод (barkod)
Malay: kod bar
Maori: waehere tāekaeka
Norwegian: strekkode (no)
Persian: بارکد (fa) (bârkod)
Polish: kod kreskowy (pl) m inan, kod paskowy m inan
Portuguese: código de barras m
Romanian: cod de bare
Russian: штрихко́д (ru) m (štrixkód)
Samogitian: barkods, brokšnėnės kods
Serbo-Croatian: бар код m, bar kod (sh) m, crtični kôd
Slovak: čiarový kód
Slovene: črtna koda
Spanish: código de barras (es) m
Swedish: streckkod (sv) c
Thai: บาร์โคด (th), รหัสแท่ง (th)
Turkish: barkod (tr), bar kod
Ukrainian: штрих-кодува́ння n (štryx-koduvánnja)
Urdu: بارکوڈ (bārkoḍ)
Vietnamese: mã vạch (vi)

References

^ “barcode”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

brocade

Chinese

Etymology

From English barcode.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹ kuk¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: baa¹ kuk¹
  - Yale: bā kūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ kuk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ kug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵ kʰʊk̚⁵/

Noun

barcode

(Hong Kong Cantonese) barcode

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 條碼 (“barcode”)

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		條碼, 條形碼, 信息碼 Mainland China
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	條碼
Cantonese	Hong Kong	條碼, barcode
Wu	Shanghai	條形碼

Derived terms

barcode頭 / barcode头 (baa¹ kuk¹ tau⁴)

References

English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English barcode.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɑrˌkoː.də/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: bar‧co‧de

Noun

barcode m (plural barcodes)

barcode
Synonym: streepjescode

[1] “barcode”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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