码(mǎ): (archaic) agate
(archaic) agate
Stroke order animation
Character information
- Pinyin
- mǎ
- Meaning
- (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 不是一码事 "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- Strokes
- 8
- HSK level
- HSK 4
- Traditional
- 碼
Origin & structure
Where 码 comes from and how its parts fit together.
How to write 码 step by step
8 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.
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Words with 码
Common words using 码 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.
two things that are fundamentally different from each other; two very different things
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