DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

票

Mandarin · pinyin piào

ticket
ballot
banknote
Classifier: 張 zhāng
person held for ransom
amateur performance of Chinese opera
classifier for groups, batches, business transactions

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

票: piào · slip of paper or bamboo; ticket

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4 · piao4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

1character link9same-tone records2source references

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

票 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Rime · Wiktionary

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

biu1 · biu6 · piu3

Cantonese word readings for 票. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack