Etymology
Short for Quick Response Code, introduced as a trademark.
Noun
QR code (plural QR codes)
- 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
- 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
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