售票员 (shòu piào yuán) — ticket seller

Definition

noun

ticket seller

Measure word · 个

售票员。
Nà wèi shòu piào yuán hěn yǒu hǎo.
That ticket seller is very friendly.
售票员。
Qǐng zhǎo shòu piào yuán mǎi piào.
Please find the ticket seller to buy tickets.
售票员。
shòu piào yuán Zài chuāng kǒu lǐ zuò zhe.
The ticket seller is sitting inside the window.

Derived word

构词法gòucífǎ

后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

售票sell tickets

动宾Verb + object

The ticket seller combines 售 'sell' and 票 'ticket', with 员 for a person.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

票 combines 火 (fire) and 𢍱 (to rise high), originally representing sparks rising up.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 員; 员 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

〇

〇líng員yuán

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In the traditional form 員, 〇 supplies the sound and 鼎 supplies the meaning; the simplified 员 is a shortened form.

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