Character Details
| ticket | Ascii: 31080 | w403 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 票 | piào | pee:aow | 4 | 覀 (west) + 示 (spirit) → ticket | 票 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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In the Old West there were no ticket (ballot) boxes. Afraid of fraud and fighting among the gunslingers, the tickets were posted into a slot in the top of the local church altar instead. They may have been rough, but the cowboys wouldn't fight in the church. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - We need two tickets | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 115 - 皮 | pí | stone | skin | skin texture | 皮 破 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 覀 (west) + 示 (spirit) → ticket | 示 (semantic origin) | 覀 (phonetic) | phonetic from 覀 | ||||||||
