票 (piu3 | piao4) : ticket; vote; invoice; banknote

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票

piu3

piao4

[1] ticket; fare
[2] vote; ballot
[3] invoice; banknote; stamp
[4] hostage; person held for ransom
[5] amateur theatrical performance

Stroke count: 11

Level: 1

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 word has been viewed 12400 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 11th Aug 2013 01:55

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粮票 leung4 piu3 liang2 piao4 = coupons for food or grain used in a PRC economic program c. 1955-1993; food stamp

支票 zi1 piu3 zhi1 piao4 = bank cheque (check)

郵票 jau4 piu3 you2 piao4 = stamp

票房 piu3 fong4 piao4 fang2 = 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, cast a ballot

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
See all 77 compounds (CantoDict reports 90 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 5 examples containing 票

我要入票粵
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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