QR code

See also: QR-Code

English

Alternative forms

• QR-code

Etymology

Short for Quick Response Code, introduced as a trademark.

Noun

QR code (plural QR codes)

1. A two-dimensional barcode, typically used to link to a website.
   • 2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 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.

   • 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN‎:

     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.

Translations

2-D barcode

Arabic: رَمْز إِسْتِجَابَة سَرِيعَة m (ramz ʔistijāba sarīʕa), رَمْز رَدّ سَرِيع m (ramz radd sarīʕ), رَمْز مُرَبَّع m (ramz murabbaʕ), رَمْز QR (ramz QR) Armenian: QR-կոդ (QR-kod) Azerbaijani: QR kodu Belarusian: QR-ко́д m (QR-kód) Bengali: কিউআর কোড (kiuar kōḍ), QR কোড (QR kōḍ) Bulgarian: QR ко́д m (QR kód) Catalan: codi QR m Chinese: Cantonese: 二維碼 / 二维码 (ji6 wai4 maa5), QR code Mandarin: 二維碼 / 二维码 (zh) (èrwéimǎ), QR碼 / QR码 (zh) (QR mǎ) Czech: QR kód m Danish: QR-kode c Dutch: QR-code (nl) Esperanto: rapidresponda kodo, QR-kodo Estonian: ruutkood, QR-kood Finnish: ruutukoodi, QR-koodi (fi) French: code QR (fr) m, QR code (fr) m, code à barres matriciel (fr) m (very rare) Georgian: QR კოდი (QR ḳodi), QR-კოდი (QR-ḳodi) German: QR-Code (de) m, Schnellantwortkode m Greek: κώδικας QR m (kódikas QR) Hebrew: קוֹד QR (he) m (kod QR) Hindi: क्यूआर कोड m (kyūār koḍ), QR कोड m (QR koḍ) Hungarian: QR-kód Indonesian: kode respons cepat, kode QR Italian: codice QR m Japanese: QRコード (QR kōdo) Korean: QR 코드 (QR kodeu) Latvian: kvadrātkods m, QR kods Lithuanian: QR kodas Norwegian: QR-kod Persian: کیوآر کد (kyu-âr kod), QR کد (QR kod) Polish: kod QR m Portuguese: código QR (pt) m, QR code (pt) m Romanian: cod QR n Russian: QR-ко́д (ru) m (QR-kód) (phonetically: кью-ар-ко́д, ку-эр-ко́д or кур-ко́д) Slovak: QR kód m Spanish: código QR m Swedish: QR-kod (sv) Thai: รหัสคิวอาร์ (rá-hàt kiu-aa), รหัส QR (rá-hàt QR) Turkish: QR kodu Ukrainian: QR-ко́д m (QR-kód) Urdu: کیو آر کوڈ m (kyū ār koḍ), QR کوڈ m (QR koḍ) Vietnamese: mã quét hai chiều, mã hai chiều, mã QR Zhuang: songveizmax, wveizmax

Further reading

• QR code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia