to ratchet up; to raise (expectations etc); to increase (a quota, a position in the market etc); to up the ante; (computing) to encode
trad. 加碼
Also written 加碼【jiā mǎ】
Characters in this word
2加
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]), surname Jia
- Pinyin
- Jiā
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1517 of 2500
码
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(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 不是一碼事|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing"), (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- Pinyin
- mǎ
- Traditional
- 碼
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5060 of 2500