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QR-Code
English
thumb|a QR code for the URL of the corresponding Wiktionary entry
Alternative forms
en QR-code
Etymology
Short for Quick Response Code, introduced as a trademark.
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-QR code.wav Southern England
Noun
A type of two-dimensional barcode, typically used to link to a website.
en 2023-12-13 Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR RAIL 998 11 TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
en Jack Guy Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/science/bee-tracking-qr-codes-scli-intl/index.html 2025-01-28 New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes glued onto their backs. The team, made up of entomologists and electrical engineers, attached AprilTags, a kind of QR code that is smaller than the nail on your little finger, to the bees using glue. https://web.archive.org/web/20250308001047/https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/science/bee-tracking-qr-codes-scli-intl/index.html
Derived terms
en quishing
Translations
2-D barcode
Arabic: ar رَمْز إِسْتِجَابَة سَرِيعَة m ramz ʔistijāba sarīʕa, ar رَمْز رَدّ سَرِيع m, ar رَمْز مُرَبَّع m, ar رَمْز QR
Armenian: hy QR-կոդ
Azerbaijani: az QR kodu
Belarusian: be QR-ко́д m
Bengali: bn কিউআর কোড, bn QR কোড QR kōḍ
Bulgarian: bg QR ко́д m
Catalan: ca codi QR m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 二維碼, yue QR code kiu1 aau1 kuk1
Mandarin: cmn 二維碼, cmn QR碼 QR mǎ
Wu: wuu 兩維碼 6lian-vi6-mo6
Czech: cs QR kód m
Danish: da QR-kode c
Dutch: nl QR-code
Esperanto: eo rapidresponda kodo, eo QR-kodo
Estonian: et ruutkood, et QR-kood
Finnish: fi ruutukoodi, fi QR-koodi
French: fr code QR m, fr QR code m, fr code à barres matriciel m very rare
Georgian: ka QR კოდი, ka QR-კოდი
German: de QR-Code m, de Schnellantwortkode m
Greek: el κώδικας QR m
Hebrew: he קוֹד QR m kod QR
Hindi: hi क्यूआर कोड m, hi QR कोड m
Hungarian: hu QR-kód
Indonesian: id kode respons cepat, id kode QR
Italian: it codice QR m
Japanese: ja QRコード QR kōdo
Korean: ko QR 코드
Latvian: lv kvadrātkods m, lv QR kods
Lithuanian: lt QR kodas
Manchu: mnc ᡩᡠᡵᠪᡝᠵᡝᠩᡤᡝ ᡨᡝᠮᡤᡝᡨᡠ, mnc QR ᡨᡝᠮᡤᡝᡨᡠ
Norwegian: no QR-kod
Persian: fa کیوآر کد kyu-âr kod, fa QR کد QR kod
Polish: pl kod QR m
Portuguese: pt código QR m, pt QR code m
Romanian: ro cod QR n
Russian: ru QR-ко́д m (phonetically: кью-ар-ко́д, ку-эр-ко́д or кур-ко́д)
Slovak: sk QR kód m
Spanish: es código QR m
Swedish: sv QR-kod
Thai: th รหัสคิวอาร์ rá-hàt kiu-aa, th รหัส QR rá-hàt QR
Turkish: tr QR kodu, tr karekod
Ukrainian: uk QR-ко́д m
Urdu: ur کیو آر کوڈ kyū ār koḍ m, ur QR کوڈ QR koḍ m
Vietnamese: vi mã quét hai chiều, vi mã hai chiều, vi mã QR
Zhuang: za songveizmax, za wveizmax
Further reading
en genericized trademarks
en Internet