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票房

Mandarin · pinyin piào fáng

box office

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票: piào · slip of paper or bamboo; ticket
房: fáng · house, building; room; 4th lunar mansion, determinative star π Scorpii

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4–2 · piao4 fang2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

piu3 fong4

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noun

(countable) box office (a place where tickets are sold)
(uncountable, film) box office (the total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters)

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