票 - Dong Chinese dictionary

piào

slip of paper or bamboo

Original meaning:

leaping flames

Phonosemantic compound. A remnant of 要 represents the sound and 火 represents the meaning. Based on the original meaning "leaping flames". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

要 Sound Remnant component

yào, yāo

want

火 Iconic component

huǒ

fire

火 hints at the original meaning of 票, "leaping flames", which is no longer the most common meaning of 票 in modern Mandarin.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 火 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

票

piào

slip of paper or bamboo; ticket; ballot; banknote; CL:張|张[zhāng]; person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera; classifier for groups, batches, business transactions

Most common words with 票