售票点 (shòu piào diǎn) — ticket office; ticket selling point

Definition

noun
ticket officeticket selling point
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 售票点。
    Qǐng zài shòu piào diǎn gòu mǎi chē piào.
    Please buy your train ticket at the ticket office.
  • 售票点。
    Huǒ chē zhàn mén kǒu yǒu yí gè shòu piào diǎn.
    There is a ticket office at the entrance of the train station.
  • 售票点。
    Zhè ge shòu piào diǎn zhī shōu xiàn jīn.
    This ticket office only accepts cash.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

售票sell tickets
售shòusell票piàoticket
动宾Verb + object
点diǎnpoint

售票 (sell tickets) and 点 (point) mean a place where tickets are sold.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

  • 火火huǒfire
  • 𢍱𢍱𢍱to rise high

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

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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 點; 点 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
黑黑hēiblack
Sound part声符shēngfú
占
占zhàn點diǎn(r)
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 點 pairs 黑 (black) with 占 for its sound; the simplified 点 is a later abbreviation.

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