票
piào HSK1

slip of paper or bamboo

票 piào
ticket noun
a slip of paper serving as evidence of a right to admission, travel, or voting

我买了两张明天的电影票。

wǒ mǎi le liǎng zhāng míng​tiān de diàn​yǐng piào.

I bought two movie tickets for tomorrow.

batch measure word
classifier for groups of people, batches of goods, or business transactions

这票货必须在月底前发走。

zhè piào huò bì​xū zài yuè​dǐ qián fā​zǒu.

This batch of goods must be shipped before the end of the month.

amateur performance verb
an amateur performance of Chinese opera

他平生最喜欢的业余爱好就是去剧团里票一段戏。

tā píng​shēng zuì xǐ​huan de yè​yú ài​hào jiù shì qù jù​tuán lǐ piào yī duàn xì.

His favorite hobby in life is to perform amateur opera with a troupe.

banknote noun
a piece of paper money

他从口袋里掏出一张百元大票递给售货员。

tā cóng kǒu​dài lǐ tāo​chū yī zhāng bǎi yuán dà​piào dì​gěi shòu​huò​yuán.

He took a hundred-yuan bill out of his pocket and handed it to the salesperson.

hostage noun
a person kidnapped and held for ransom

绑匪绑了一个票，正等着其家属拿钱来赎人。

bǎng​fěi bǎng le yī gè piào, zhèng děng zhe qí jiā​shǔ ná qián lái shú rén.

The kidnappers took a hostage and are waiting for the family to pay the ransom.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
910th most common 188.4 per million
Movie subtitles
531st most common 270.9 per million appears in 46% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
109.2 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
121.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7968

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)