Chinese telegraph code

Chinese telegraph code
Traditional Chinese中文電報碼
Simplified Chinese中文电报码
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngwén diànbàomǎ
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese中文電碼
Simplified Chinese中文电码
Literal meaningChinese electric code
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngwén diànmǎ

The Chinese telegraph code, or Chinese commercial code, is a four-digit character encoding enabling the use of Chinese characters in electrical telegraph messages.