(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|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)

stone (石) + horse (马) = code, number, size

石 points to the original sense: a stone weight on a balance scale used as a standard measure. 马 gives the sound mǎ and does not carry meaning here.

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请告诉我你的手机号

qǐng gào su wǒ nǐ de shǒu jī hào mǎ。

Please tell me your phone number.

这是两事,你不能混在一起说。

zhè shì liǎng mǎ shì,nǐ bù néng hùn zài yī qǐ shuō。

These are two different matters; you can't mix them together when you talk about them.

Words with 码

大码

dà mǎ

large size

通用汉字标准交换码

tōng yòng hàn zì biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ

abbr. to 通用碼|通用码[Tong1 yong4 ma3]

通用码

tōng yòng mǎ

Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard (abbr. for 通用漢字標準交換碼|通用汉字标准交换码[Tong1 yong4 Han4 zi4 Biao1 zhun3 Jiao1 huan4 ma3])

邮政区码

yóu zhèng qū mǎ

PRC postcode, e.g. 361000 for Xiamen or Amoy 廈門|厦门[Xia4 men2], Fujian

邮政编码

yóu zhèng biān mǎ

postal code

郑码

zhèng mǎ

original Chinese character coding based on component shapes, created by Zheng Yili 鄭易里|郑易里[Zheng4 Yi4 li3], underlying most stroke-based Chinese input methods

重码

chóng mǎ

repeated code

开放源代码

kāi fàng yuán dài mǎ

see 開放源碼|开放源码[kai1 fang4 yuan2 ma3]

开放源码

kāi fàng yuán mǎ

(computing) open-source

开放源码软件

kāi fàng yuán mǎ ruǎn jiàn

open-source software (OSS)

零码

líng mǎ

(Tw) (fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes

电话区码

diàn huà qū mǎ

area code

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