Chinese symbol for “codon”

密码子

mì mǎ zi

Traditional: 密碼子

(biochemistry) codon

The closest CC-CEDICT match for codon is 密码子 (mì mǎ zi), defined as: (biochemistry) codon.

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Characters and stroke order

密 mì

secret, confidential; intimate, close; dense, thick

radical 40 ⼧ · 11 strokes

码 mǎ

number, numeral, symbol; yard

radical 112 ⽯ · 8 strokes

子 zi

son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing

radical 39 ⼦ · 3 strokes

Traditional forms

碼 mǎ

Related words

Other words that share a character with 密码子.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
秘密	mì mì	secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret
密码 (密碼)	mì mǎ	cipher; secret code; password; PIN
密切	mì qiè	close; intimate; to strengthen (ties, cooperation etc)
紧密 (緊密)	jǐn mì	inseparably close
密度	mì dù	density; concentration
机密 (機密)	jī mì	secret; classified; classified information; secret
代码 (代碼)	dài mǎ	code
号码 (號碼)	hào mǎ	number; measure word: 堆 (duī), 个 (gè)
孩子	hái zi	child

See also: Japanese symbol for “codon”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.