HSK 6 · Money

彩票 cǎipiào “lottery ticket” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 彩票 means

  1. lottery ticket
  2. lottery

How to say 彩票

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale彩cǎi3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale票piào4th tone, falling

彩票 in a sentence

  1. 你买彩票了吗？

    Nǐ mǎi cǎipiào le ma?

    Have you bought a lottery ticket?

    Sentence #812267 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 如果我中了彩票，我会买辆新车。

    Rúguǒ wǒ zhòng le cǎipiào, wǒ huì mǎi liàng xīn chē.

    If I won the lottery, I’d buy a new car.

    Sentence #4099650 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 找一个好男人比中彩票还要难。

    Zhǎo yí ge hǎo nánrén bǐ zhòng cǎipiào hái yào nán.

    Finding a good man is harder than winning the lottery.

    Sentence #1082812 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 彩票 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 彩 (cǎi) with each of its parts in a different colour
彩cǎicolour
  • 采to collect · cǎiSound part
  • 彡bristle · shānMeaning part

彡 hints at the meaning (bristle); 采 (cǎi) hints at the sound. Compare it with cǎi.

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 彩票

彩 11 strokes · 票 11 strokes

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

Words related to 彩票

Words with 彩

精彩jīngcǎi · wonderful色彩sècǎi · colour彩虹cǎihóng · rainbow剪彩jiǎncǎi · to cut the ribbon (at an opening ceremony)光彩guāngcǎi · glory

Words with 票

票piào · ticket机票jīpiào · air ticket门票ménpiào · entrance ticket (for an attraction检票jiǎnpiào · to check tickets发票fāpiào · invoice股票gǔpiào · shares支票zhīpiào · cheque钞票chāopiào · banknote投票tóupiào · to vote

More words: Money & Economy

补偿bǔcháng · to compensate补贴bǔtiē · subsidy财富cáifù · wealth采购cǎigòu · to purchase (for an organisation)财务cáiwù · financial affairs财政cáizhèng · public finance偿还chánghuán · to repay畅销chàngxiāo · best-selling

FAQs

彩票 (cǎipiào) means “lottery ticket” or “lottery”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cǎipiào: cǎi with a 3rd 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.
Yes. 彩票 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type caipiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 彩票 from the suggestions. Typing caipiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
彩票 is an HSK 6 word in the 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.