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Chinese symbol for “ticket”

票
piào
ticket; ballot; banknote; 张 (zhāng)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for ticket is 票 (piào), defined as: ticket; ballot; banknote; 张 (zhāng); person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera.

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Characters and stroke order

票 piào
bank note; ticket; vote; a slip of paper
radical 113 ⽰ · 11 strokes

Other Chinese words for “ticket”

WordPinyinMeaning
门票 (門票)mén piàoticket (for theater, cinema etc)
票证 (票證)piào zhènga ticket; a pass (e.g. to enter a building)
戏票 (戲票)xì piào(theater etc) ticket
筹 (籌)chóuchip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket; to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds)
券quànbond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half); contract

Related words

Other words that share a character with 票.

WordPinyinMeaning
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)
门票 (門票)mén piàoticket (for theater, cinema etc)
机票 (機票)jī piàoplane ticket; airline ticket; 张 (zhāng)
票房piào fángbox office

See also: Japanese symbol for “ticket”.

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.