HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Things

机票 jīpiào “air ticket” in Chinese

Traditional 機票

What 机票 means

  1. air ticket
  2. passenger ticket
  3. plane ticket
  4. airline ticket

Measure word 张 zhāng · 一张机票 yì zhāng jīpiào

How to say 机票

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale机jī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale票piào4th tone, falling

机票 in a sentence

  1. 我想订一张去温哥华的机票。

    Wǒ xiǎng dìng yì zhāng qù Wēngēhuá de jīpiào.

    I’d like to book a plane ticket to Vancouver.

    Sentence #373438 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 请你出示你的机票和护照。

    Qǐng nǐ chūshì nǐ de jīpiào hé hùzhào.

    Please show your plane ticket and passport.

    Sentence #6559062 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 你买回程机票了吗?

    Nǐ mǎi huíchéng jīpiào le ma?

    Have you bought a return ticket?

    Sentence #6482556 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 机票 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 机 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
机jīmachine; mechanism
  • 木tree · mù
  • 几table · jī

Memory aidA small table 几 made of wood 木: a machine. 几 (jī) also gives the sound.

The character 票 (piào) with each of its parts in a different colour
票piàoticket
  • 覀cover form of 襾 · yà
  • 示sign · shì

How to write 机票

机 6 strokes · 票 11 strokes

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机票 (jīpiào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 机票 (jīpiào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 机票

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FAQs

机票 (jīpiào) means “air ticket” or “passenger ticket”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it jīpiào: jī with a 1st tone, then piào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 机票 is written 機票. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 张 (zhāng). For example, one air ticket is 一张机票 (yì zhāng jīpiào).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jipiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 机票 from the suggestions. Typing jipiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
机票 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.