HSK 6 · Money

钞票 chāopiào “banknote” in Chinese

Traditional 鈔票

What 钞票 means

  1. banknote
  2. paper money
  3. a bill (e.g. 100 yuan)

Measure word 张 zhāng or 扎 zā · 一张钞票 yì zhāng chāopiào

How to say 钞票

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale钞chāo1st 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

钞票 in a sentence

  1. 我经常用信用卡，而不是钞票。

    Wǒ jīngcháng yòng xìnyòngkǎ, ér bú shì chāopiào.

    I usually use a credit card rather than cash.

    Sentence #8935386 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这张钞票是假造的。

    Zhè zhāng chāopiào shì jiǎzào de.

    This banknote is counterfeit.

    Sentence #12568721 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这个小婴孩撕掉了一张十美元的钞票。

    Zhè ge xiǎo yīnghái sīdiào le yì zhāng shí měiyuán de chāopiào.

    The baby tore up a ten-dollar note.

    Sentence #896486 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 钞票 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 钞 (chāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
钞chāomoney
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 少few · shǎoSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 少 (shǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with chāo.

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 钞票

钞 9 strokes · 票 11 strokes

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

Words related to 钞票

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彩票cǎipiào · lottery ticket投票tóupiào · to vote

More words: Money & Economy

财政cáizhèng · public finance偿还chánghuán · to repay畅销chàngxiāo · best-selling产业chǎnyè · industry成本chéngběn · cost (of production)成交chéngjiāo · to close a deal赤字chìzì · deficit储备chǔbèi · reserves

FAQs

钞票 (chāopiào) means “banknote” or “paper money”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chāopiào: chāo 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, 钞票 is written 鈔票. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 张 (zhāng) or 扎 (zā). For example, one banknote is 一张钞票 (yì zhāng chāopiào).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chaopiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 钞票 from the suggestions. Typing chaopiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
钞票 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.