票 (piu3 piu1 | piao4 biao1 piao1) : bill; note; ticket

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票

piu3 piu1

piao4 biao1 piao1

[1] [n] bill; note [2] [n] slip of paper or bamboo; ticket [3] [n] ballot [4] [n] hostage [5] [n] amateur performance

Stroke count: 11

Level: 2

Radical: 示 (#113)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

票

Don't confuse with:
栗粟要耍

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 31st Jul 2009 14:23

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支票 zi1 piu3 zhi1 piao4 = cheque (check)

郵票 jau4 piu3 you2 piao4 = stamp

票房 piu3 fong4 = box office (lit. "ticket room")

股票市場 gu2 piu3 si5 coeng4 gu3 piao4 shi4 chang2 = the stock market; stock exchange

機票 gei1 piu3 ji1 piao4 = plane ticket

發票 faat3 piu3 fa1 piao4 = receipt, invoice

投票 tau4 piu3 tou2 piao4 = to vote

售票員 sau6 piu3 jyun4 shou4 piao4 yuan2 = ticket seller

售票處 sau6 piu3 cyu3/syu3 shou4 piao4 chu4 = ticket office; ticket counter

鈔票 caau1 piu3 chao1 piao4 = paper money; currency note; currency bill
See all 76 compounds (CantoDict reports 85 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 5 examples containing 票

我要入票 ?
I need to cash a cheque.
[Definitely Canto! Not sure whether or not it's Mando too...]

乘務員用剪票夾在我們的車票上打孔。國
The train conductor punched our tickets.

我想等陣去銀行幫人哋入票粵
I want to go to the bank in a moment to cash a cheque.

佢頭先話畀我聽佢想等陣去銀行幫人哋入票粵
He told me he wanted to go to the bank soon to cash a cheque for someone.
[頭先 implies 10 or 20 minutes ago; contrast with 啱啱 which implies a few seconds ago.]

我等陣想去銀行幫人哋入票粵
I'll want to go to the bank to cash a cheque for someone soon.
[Shouldn't be parsed as 我等陣(我哋) but as 我等陣]

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Decimal representation of this word: 票
Unicode code for this character: U+7968 (off-site link)

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