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Chinese symbol for “invoice”

发票
fā piào
Traditional: 發票
invoice; receipt; bill; uniform invoice (abbr. for 统一发票 (tǒng yī fā piào))

The closest CC-CEDICT match for invoice is 发票 (fā piào), defined as: invoice; receipt; bill; uniform invoice (abbr. for 统一发票 (tǒng yī fā piào)).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

发 fā
to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
radical 29 ⼜ · 5 strokes
票 piào
bank note; ticket; vote; a slip of paper
radical 113 ⽰ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “invoice”

WordPinyinMeaning
请款 (請款)qǐng kuǎnto request payment (or reimbursement); to invoice

Related words

Other words that share a character with 发票.

WordPinyinMeaning
发展 (發展)fā zhǎndevelopment; growth
发生 (發生)fā shēngto happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")
发现 (發現)fā xiànto notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect
开发 (開發)kāi fāto exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop
发布 (發佈)fā bùvariant of 发布 (fā bù)
投票tóu piàoto vote; to cast a vote
股票gǔ piàoshare certificate; stock (finance)
选票 (選票)xuǎn piàoa vote; ballot; 张 (zhāng)

See also: Japanese symbol for “invoice”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.