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电影票 (diàn yǐng piào) — movie ticket

Definition

noun
movie ticket
Measure word · 张

Examples

  • 电影票。
    Wǒ mǎi le liǎng zhāng diàn yǐng piào.
    I bought two movie tickets.
  • 电影票。
    Qǐng bǎ nǐ de diàn yǐng piào gěi wǒ kàn kàn.
    Please show me your movie ticket.
  • 电影票。
    Míng tiān de diàn yǐng piào yǐ jīng mài wán le.
    Tomorrow's movie tickets have already been sold out.

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.

电影movie
电diànelectricity影yǐngimage
偏正Modifier + head
票piàoticket

电 means electricity, 影 means image or shadow, forming movie, and 票 means ticket, so a ticket for a movie.

Characters in this word

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 電; 电 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
雨雨yǔrain
Sound part声符shēngfú
申
申shēn電diàn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

For the traditional form 電, 雨 (rain) sits with 申, read shēn and meaning lightning.

Open 电 →

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú
彡彡shān
Sound part声符shēngfú
景
景jǐng影yǐng
Same sound today

影 pairs 景, which gives the sound and also carries the idea of image, with 彡, the part that points to shadow.

Open 影 →

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.

Open 票 →
Appears in
Film & Theater

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