| 通用汉字标准交换码 |
Tōng yòng Hàn zì Biāo zhǔn Jiāo huàn 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. to 通用码 |
| 通 |
tōng |
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc |
| 通 |
tòng |
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc) |
| 通用 |
tōng yòng |
to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable |
| 用 |
yòng |
to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using / to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions) / usefulness; utility / (bound form) expense; outlay / (courteous) to eat; to drink / (literary) hence; therefore |
| 汉 |
Hàn |
Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 汉 |
hàn |
man |
| 汉字 |
hàn zì |
Chinese character(s) |
| 字 |
zì |
letter / symbol / character / word / CL:个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China |
| 标 |
biāo |
mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units |
| 标准 |
biāo zhǔn |
standard; norm; criterion / (adjective) standard / good; correct; conforming to a standard |
| 准 |
zhǔn |
to allow / to grant / in accordance with / in the light of |
| 准 |
zhǔn |
accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para- |
| 交 |
jiāo |
to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over / to make friends / (of lines) to intersect / variant of 跤 |
| 交换 |
jiāo huàn |
to exchange / to swap / to switch (telecom) / commutative (math) / to commute |
| 交换码 |
jiāo huàn mǎ |
interchange code / computer coding for characters, including Chinese |
| 换 |
huàn |
to exchange / to change (clothes etc) / to substitute / to switch / to convert (currency) |
| 码 |
mǎ |
(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) |