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Damya Bhatia
Damya Bhatia
4 years ago

this character looks like 吗 with an extra line. Sometimes when you want to log into a website, they ask you a *question* like “when is your mother’s birthday” and the answer you set for it is the code.

Ariana Fahl
Ariana Fahl
2 years ago

first, before you scan a code, you need to ask someone to sign it (hence the 吗). Also, you can think of the two lines above the 口 radical as scanning it. The 口 radical you can think of as the QR code itself.

Luciana Emerson
Luciana Emerson
1 year ago

The left part looks like a person putting in their pin at an ATM.

Michaella Blemur
Michaella Blemur
1 year ago

The left character looks like a payphone, and the right character looks like the number 5, with a line straight down in the front and a line straight across behind it. I picture Numbah 5 (from “Codename: Kids Next Door”, classic show!), using the payphone to deliver a secret code!

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NYU New York
Deniz Acar Köstem
Deniz Acar Köstem
8 months ago

This character has the horse radical 马 to the right, hence the pronunciation. To the left, we have something that looks like a calculator hanging from above, showing some kind of CODE.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Margaret
Margaret
8 months ago

these two squares (bottom left and upper right) look like these little squares where you enter the code

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NYU Shanghai
Eva Vang
Eva Vang
7 months ago

the radical on the right is for pronounciation, the left hand side looks like the cover of an ATM when you are putting in your pin code.

Nghia Nim
Nghia Nim
7 months ago

You have to ask for a code when trying to sign in, hence 吗。But you need some extra steps to finish hence 码。

Linh Hoang
Linh Hoang
7 months ago

The right part is radical for “horse,” and the left part is radical for “stone.” In a horse race, to NUMBER the horses, they carves their number into a small piece of stone and put on its neck

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NYU Abu Dhabi