Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

票: ballot, label

Also: ticket, sign

JLPT N111 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

覀 and 示 carry the meaning

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ヒョウhyou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 票ひょうlabel, ballot, vote
  • 白票はくひょうblank ballot, white ballot
  • 得票とくひょうnumber of votes polled
  • 一票いっぴょうa vote, ballot
  • 伝票でんぴょうsales slip, voucher
  • 住民票じゅうみんひょうresident's card
  • 固定票こていひょうsolid vote, solid support
  • 浮動票ふどうひょうswing vote
  • 投票するとうひょうするcast a vote, vote
  • 開票するかいひょうするcount votes

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound (會意)火 fire (meaning) + 𢍱 to rise high (meaning)

Simplified from 𤐫. Ideogrammic compound (會意): semantic 火 (“fire”) + semantic 𢍱 (“to rise high”), which represents two pairs of hands holding and rising an object, perhaps a bag or basket (西).

Source: Wiktionary, 票 (rev. 92291826), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Cover (襾) + fire (示 variant). Originally suggested bits of sparks or ash "covered" and rising from a fire, now used for slips of paper or ballots.”
From the 襾 cover story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
覀

Also built on cover (覀)

All 6
示

Also built on altar (示)

All 8

票 gives its sound to

The family reading is ヒョウ (hyou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ヒョウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · piào

Same form: 票 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
票 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
票 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin piào most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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