飞机票 (fēi jī piào) — air ticket, flight ticket | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

air ticketflight ticket

Measure word · 张

Examples

飞机票。
Wǒ yào mǎi yì zhāng fēi jī piào.
I want to buy an air ticket.
飞机票？
Nǐ dìng hǎo fēi jī piào le ma?
Have you booked the air ticket?
飞机票。
Zhè zhāng fēi jī piào shì cóng běi jīng dào shàng hǎi de.
This air ticket is from Beijing to Shanghai.

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.

飞机airplane

飞fēifly机jīmachine

偏正Modifier + head

飞机 is the flying machine, and 票 is the ticket for it.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 飛; 飞 is its simplified writing.

For 飞, the traditional form 飛 pictures a bird flying upwards.

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

木几机

Meaning part形符xíngfú

木木mùtree; wood

Sound part声符shēngfú

几

几jǐ机jī

Same sound today

The left part is 木 (tree; wood), and the right part 几 gives the sound.

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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