HSK 2 · Common Things

票 piào “ticket” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 票 means

  1. ticket
  2. ballot
  3. banknote
  4. person held for ransom
  5. amateur performance of Chinese opera
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • classifier for groups, batches, business transactions

Measure word 张 zhāng · 一张票 yì zhāng piào

How to say 票

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

票 in a sentence

  1. 我有三张票。

    Wǒ yǒu sān zhāng piào.

    I have three tickets.

    Sentence #343849 from Tatoeba

  2. 我找不到我的票。

    Wǒ zhǎo bu dào wǒ de piào.

    I can’t find my ticket.

    Sentence #926811 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 火车票贵吗？

    Huǒchēpiào guì ma?

    Are train tickets expensive?

    Sentence #2202352 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 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 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 票

票 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 票

Words with 票

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钞票chāopiào · banknote投票tóupiào · to vote

More words: Everyday Things

报纸bàozhǐ · newspaper考试kǎoshì · exam课kè · class门mén · door铅笔qiānbǐ · pencil手表shǒubiǎo · watch手机shǒujī · mobile phone题tí · question (on a test)

FAQs

票 (piào) means “ticket” or “ballot”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it piào: piào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 票 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 张 (zhāng). For example, one ticket is 一张票 (yì zhāng piào).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type piao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 票 from the suggestions. Typing piao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
票 is an HSK 2 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.