碼

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

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”

; “yard”

; “kilometer per hour”

; “pixelization”

; “to reply to a post for reading it later”