国标

國標
guóbiāo
noun #30,229

Meanings

  1. 1 national standard (abbreviation of 国家标准)
  2. 2 international standard ballroom dancing (abbreviation of 国际标准舞)

Examples

Zhè kuǎn chǎnpǐn fúhé guóbiāo.
This product meets the national standard.
Tā cóng xiǎo xué tiào guóbiāo wǔ.
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 (guóbiāo mǎ) 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