码 (mǎ) is a Chinese word meaning “(archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale; number”.
Meanings
- 1(archaic) agate
- 2(bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale
- 3number
- 4(computing) code
- 5(clothing) size
- 6yard (unit of length)
- 7(coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references)
- 8(coll.) to pile up; to stack
- 9classifier 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")
- 10(Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- Part of speech
- measure word