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票
Mandarin · pinyin piào
Meanings
- ticket
- ballot
- banknote
- Classifier: 張 zhāng
- person held for ransom
- amateur performance of Chinese opera
- classifier for groups, batches, business transactions
Characters in this entry
- 票
- piào · slip of paper or bamboo; ticket
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Mandarin tones
4 · piao4
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 13 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
biu1 · biu6 · piu3
Cantonese word readings for 票. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- ticket; coupon (Classifier: 張／张 m)
- ballot; voting slip; vote (Classifier: 張／张 m)
- bank note; bill
- (Cantonese) short for 支票 (“check”) (Classifier: 張／张 c)
- person held for ransom; hostage
- (Chinese opera) amateur performance of Chinese opera
- Classifier for shipments and business.
- swift
- to mark
- a surname, Piao
character
- roaring flame
- ethereal
- to shake
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