barcode

See also: bar code

English

A UPC-A barcode (noun sense 1) symbol

Alternative forms

• bar code

Etymology

Etymology tree

Vulgar Latin *barra

Old French barrebor.

Middle English barre

English bar

Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂-

Proto-Italic *kūdō

Latin cūdō?

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ulisder.

Latin caulis?

Latin caudex

Latin cōdex

Old French codebor.

Middle English code

English code

English barcode

Compound of bar +‎ code. First attested in 1963 for noun 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)
• → Burmese: ဘားကုဒ် (bha:kud)
• → Dutch: barcode
• → Dutch: streepjescode (calque)
  • → Afrikaans: strepieskode (calque)
• → German: Barcode
• → Iranian Persian: بارْکُد (bârkod)
• → Japanese: バーコード (bā kōdo)
• → Korean: 바코드 (bakodeu)
• → Macedonian: баркод (barkod)
• → Portuguese: código de barras (calque)
• → Spanish: código de barras (calque)
• → Thai: บาร์โคด (baa-kóot)

Translations

set of machine-readable parallel bars

• Afrikaans: strepieskode, staafkode
• Albanian: barkod m
• Arabic: شِفْرَةٌ خَيْطِيَّة f (šifratun ḵayṭiyya)
• Armenian: շտրիխ կոդ (štrix kod)
• Azerbaijani: barkod
• Basque: barra-kode
• Belarusian: штрыхко́д m (štryxkód), штрыхавы́ код m (štryxavý kod)
• Bengali: বারকোড (barkōḍ)
• Bulgarian: ба́ркод m (bárkod), щрихко́д m (štrihkód)
• Burmese: ဘားကုဒ် (bha:kud)
• Catalan: codi de barres
• Cherokee: ᎦᎾᎸᎢ ᎪᏗ (ganalvi godi)
• 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) m
• Danish: stregkode (da) c
• Dutch: streepjescode (nl) f, barcode (nl) f
• Esperanto: strikodo, strekkodo
• Estonian: vöötkood, ribakood, joonkood, triipkood
• 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: בַּרְקוֹד (he) m (bárkod)
• Hindi: बारकोड m (bārkoḍ)
• Hungarian: vonalkód (hu)
• Icelandic: strikamerki n, strikalykill m
• Indonesian: kode batang (id)
• Irish: barrachód m
• Italian: codice a barre m
• Japanese: バーコード (ja) (bākōdo)
• Kazakh: сызықшалы код (sızıqšalı kod), штрихкод (štrıyxkod)
• Khmer: បាកូដ (baakout)
• Korean: 바코드 (bakodeu)
• Kyrgyz: штрихкод (ştrihkod)
• Lao: ບາໂຄດ (bā khōt)
• Latvian: svītrkods m
• Lithuanian: brūkšninis kodas m
• Macedonian: баркод m (barkod)
• Malay: kod bar, kod palang, kod batang
• Maltese: kodiċi tal-bar m
• Māori: waehere tāekaeka
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зураасан код (zuraasan kod), баркод (barkod), шугаман код (šugaman kod), үсгэн код (üsgen kod)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strekkode (no) m

• Pashto: بارکوډ m (bārkoḍ)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: بارْکُد (fa) (bârkod), رَمْزینِه (fa) (ramzine)

• Polish: kod kreskowy (pl) m inan, kod paskowy m inan
• Portuguese: código de barras m
• Romanian: cod de bare n
• Russian: штрихко́д (ru) m (štrixkód), штрихово́й код (ru) m (štrixovój kod)
• Samogitian: barkods, brokšnėnės kods
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̑р ко̑д m, цртични ко̑д m

  Latin: bȃr kȏd (sh) m, crtični kȏd m

• Slovak: čiarový kód m
• Slovene: črtna koda f
• Spanish: código de barras (es) m
• Swedish: streckkod (sv) c
• Tajik: рамзина (ramzina), штрихкод (štrixkod), боркуд (borkud)
• Thai: บาร์โคด (th) (baa-kóot), รหัสแท่ง (th) (rá-hàt-tɛ̂ng)
• Turkish: barkod (tr), bar kod
• Turkmen: ştrih-kod
• Ukrainian: штрихко́д m (štryxkód), штрихови́й код m (štryxovýj kod)
• Urdu: بارْکوڈ m (bārkoḍ), بار کوڈ m (bār koḍ)
• Uzbek: shtrixkod
• Vietnamese: mã vạch (vi)

Verb

barcode (third-person singular simple present barcodes, present participle barcoding, simple past and past participle barcoded)

1. (transitive) To apply a barcode (machine-readable code) to.

See also

• UPC, ISBN, EAN
• 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

Derived terms

• barcode頭 / barcode头 (baa¹ kuk¹ tau⁴)

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, no diminutive)

1. barcode

   Synonym: streepjescode