barcode

See also: bar code

English

A UPC-A barcode (sense 1) symbol

Alternative forms

• bar code

Etymology

Compound of bar +‎ code. First attested in 1963 for sense 1.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.kəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹ.koʊd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kəʊd
• Hyphenation: bar‧code

Noun

barcode (plural barcodes)

2. Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology. [from 1960s]
4. (genetics) A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species.
6. (self-harm, slang) An instance of self-harm, typically with multiple parallel cuts along a line, similar in form to a machine barcode.

Derived terms

• barcoded
• barcoder
• barcode reader
• barcode scanner
• barcoding
• biobarcode
• metabarcode
• minibarcode
• nanobarcode

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: staafkode (calque)
• → Dutch: barcode
• → Dutch: streepjescode (calque)
  • → Afrikaans: strepieskode (calque)

Translations

set of machine-readable parallel bars

• Afrikaans: strepieskode, staafkode
• Albanian: barkodi
• Arabic: شِفْرَة خَيْطِيَّة f (šifra ḵayṭiyya)
• Azerbaijani: barkod
• Basque: barra-kode
• Bulgarian: ба́ркод m (bárkod)
• Catalan: codi de barres
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 條碼 / 条码 (tiu⁴ maa⁵)

  Mandarin: 條形碼 / 条形码 (zh) (tiáoxíngmǎ), 條碼 / 条码 (zh) (tiáomǎ)

• Czech: čárový kód (cs)
• Danish: stregkode (da)
• Dutch: streepjescode (nl) f, barcode (nl) f
• Esperanto: strikodo, strekkodo
• Estonian: vöötkood
• Finnish: viivakoodi (fi)
• French: code-barres (fr) m, code à barres (fr) m
• Georgian: შტრიხ-კოდი (šṭrix-ḳodi), შტრიხკოდი (šṭrixḳodi), შტრიხული კოდი (šṭrixuli ḳodi)
• German: Strichcode (de) m, Balkencode m, Barcode (de) m
• Greek: γραμμοκωδικός m (grammokodikós)
• Hebrew: ברקוד (he)
• Hindi: बारकोड (bārkoḍ)
• Hungarian: vonalkód (hu)
• Icelandic: strikamerki n
• Italian: codice a barre m
• Japanese: バーコード (ja) (bākōdo)
• Kazakh: сызықшалы код (syzyqşaly kod)
• Korean: 바코드 (bakodeu)
• Latvian: svītrkods
• Lithuanian: brūkšninis kodas
• Macedonian: баркод (barkod)
• Malay: kod bar
• Maori: waehere tāekaeka
• Norwegian: strekkode (no)
• Persian: بارکد (fa) (bârkod)
• Polish: kod kreskowy (pl) m inan, kod paskowy m inan
• Portuguese: código de barras m
• Romanian: cod de bare
• Russian: штрихко́д (ru) m (štrixkód)
• Samogitian: barkods, brokšnėnės kods
• Serbo-Croatian: бар код m, bar kod (sh) m, crtični kôd
• Slovak: čiarový kód
• Slovene: črtna koda
• Spanish: código de barras (es) m
• Swedish: streckkod (sv) c
• Thai: บาร์โคด (th), รหัสแท่ง (th)
• Turkish: barkod (tr), bar kod
• Ukrainian: штрих-кодува́ння n (štryx-koduvánnja)
• Urdu: بارکوڈ (bārkoḍ)
• Vietnamese: mã vạch (vi)

See also

• UPC
• QR code, QR

Further reading

• barcode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• DNA barcoding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• brocade

Chinese

Etymology

From English barcode.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹ kuk¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa¹ kuk¹
    • Yale: bā kūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ kuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ kug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵ kʰʊk̚⁵/

Noun

barcode

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) barcode

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 條碼 (“barcode”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		條碼, 條形碼, 信息碼 Mainland China
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	條碼
Cantonese	Hong Kong	條碼, barcode
Wu	Shanghai	條形碼

Adjective

barcode

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) of a shape that resembles barcode

   barcode頭／barcode头 [Cantonese]  ―  baa¹ kuk¹ tau⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  a type of hairstyle where the fringe/bangs resembles a barcode

See also

• code

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English barcode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑrˌkoː.də/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bar‧co‧de

Noun

barcode m (plural barcodes)

1. barcode

   Synonym: streepjescode