ticket
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票 is written with 11 strokes. The animation replays automatically.
票 (piào) means 'ticket' — the slip of paper or digital pass you buy or hold to enter or use something: a movie, train, plane, concert, or museum.
It is almost always counted with 张 (zhāng), the measure word for flat sheet-like things, so 'two tickets' is 两张票. 票 is rarely used alone in modern speech; native speakers usually attach it to what kind of ticket: 电影票 (movie ticket), 火车票 (train ticket), 飞机票 (plane ticket), 门票 (entry ticket). 票 also extends to 'vote' (投票 tóupiào, 'cast a vote'; 选票 xuǎnpiào, 'ballot') and to currency-style notes (钞票 chāopiào, 'banknote'), so context matters when you read it.
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Wǒ mǎi le liǎng zhāng diànyǐng piào.
I bought two movie tickets.
neutral
请问，火车票多少钱？
Qǐng wèn, huǒchē piào duōshao qián?
Excuse me, how much is a train ticket?
spoken, polite
门票是五十块钱一张。
Ménpiào shì wǔshí kuài qián yì zhāng.
Admission is fifty yuan per ticket.
neutral
我的飞机票在哪儿？
Wǒ de fēijī piào zài nǎr?
Where is my plane ticket?
spoken
门票 specifically means an entrance ticket to a venue (museum, park, zoo). 票 is the general word; use 门票 when emphasizing 'admission' as opposed to a transport or show ticket.
漂 (piào) appears in 漂亮 ('pretty') and is read piāo when it means 'to float.' Same syllable as 票 but different character — 票 has no water radical.
标 means 'mark / label' and looks similar to 票 at small sizes. 票 is what you buy to enter; 标 is a label or tag (商标 'trademark').
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