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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

代码

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dǎimǎ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Code/koʊd/
nounverbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #250 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"程序员正在电脑上编写代码。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A set of rules or laws governing behavior or procedure, or a system of words, letters, or figures substituted for other words, letters, etc., for the purpose of secrecy.

    "The spies used a complex secret code to transmit messages across enemy lines."
  2. 2

    Instructions written in a computer language that can be executed to perform a specific task.

    "She spent the entire afternoon debugging lines of code for the new software application."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'codex', meaning a block of wood or a book of laws, originally referring to a systematic collection of laws. Over centuries, the meaning broadened to include any system of symbols, rules, or signals used for communication or data processing.

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