Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 票

票

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Meaning

 ticket, ballot, bank note, person held for ransom

Pronunciation

 piào

Explanation

 Top: west 覀/西 (Under the horizon 一 the sun 日 sinks 儿 at the sunset in the west.), bottom: show 示 (image of an altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and drippling blood 八)

Mnemonic

In the west you show your ticket.

Radicals

票 ticket, ballot(bank note; person held for ransom)
西 west
示 to show, altar(Shows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.)
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Vocabulary

投票 tóu piào to vote; vote
钞票 chāo piào paper money; a bill (e.g. 100 yuan)

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