国标

國標
guóbiāo
noun #30,229

Meanings

  1. 1 national standard
  2. 2 international standard ballroom dancing

Examples

HSK 4
Zhè kuǎn chǎnpǐn fúhé guóbiāo.
This product meets the national standard.
HSK 5
Tā cóngxiǎo xué tiào guóbiāowǔ.
She has been learning ballroom dance since childhood.

Tips

usage
Two unrelated abbreviations sharing the same form: (1) 国家标准 'national standard' - used in product specs (国标 GB), and (2) 国际标准 'international ballroom dance'. Context disambiguates: if it's about regulations, sense 1; if about dancing, sense 2.
culture
国标 is also the name for the GB encoding used in early Chinese computing (GB2312, GBK), the predecessor of UTF-8 for Chinese text.

Stroke Order

guó
biāo